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Three years after her debut novel flopped and left her stuck with crippling writer's block, Zoe Ann Weiss is working a dead-end flower shop job in Los Angeles when a delivery reunites her with Zach — the man she briefly dated before he became famous. Their secret relationship reignites her creativity just as leaked photos expose them to the public, sending Zoe's first novel viral and drawing the attention of a stalker obsessed with Zach who starts reenacting the violent twists from her book, with Zoe cast as the new victim. When her ex-boyfriend kidnaps her, Zoe uncovers a blackmail scheme tied to a decades-old crime and a friend's death — and finishes her most dangerous novel yet from inside the very story she's living.

Pip Drysdale delivers a twisty Hollywood thriller about fame, obsession, and a woman writing her way out of becoming someone else's plot.