Slate - Valentine and Lovelace, Bk 3 Author:Nathan Aldyne Daniel Valentine and Clarisse Lovelace, are stirring up excitement and intrigue in Boston. Clarisse's uncle has financed a bar called Slate, which the duo must open by New Year's Eve. To complicate matters further; Valentine and Clarisse stumble upon a puzzling new mystery: Who put a corpse in Clarisse's bed?