Park Row
December 2023
On Sale: November 28, 2023
292 pages ISBN: 077833418X EAN: 9780778334187 Kindle: B0BM4RHBJK Trade Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
From theΒ USA Today-bestselling author ofΒ Beautiful Little Fools, Jillian Cantor'sΒ The Fiction WriterΒ follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaireΒ to write about his family history with Daphne du Maurier and finds herself drawn into a tangled web of obsession, marital secrets, and stolen manuscripts.Β
The once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most recent novelβa retelling of Daphne du MaurierβsΒ RebeccaβwasΒ a flop, her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her and sheβs battling a bad case of writerβs block. So when her agent calls her with a high-paying ghostwriting opportunity, Olivia is all too willing to sign the NDA.
At first, the write-for-hire jobΒ seems too good to be true. All she has to do is interview Henry βAshβ Asherwood, a reclusive mega billionaire, twice namedΒ PeopleβsΒ Sexiest Man Alive,Β who wants her help in writing a bookΒ that reveals a shocking secret about hisΒ late grandmother and Daphne du Maurier. But when Olivia arrives at his Malibu estate, nothing is as it seems. The more Olivia digs into his grandmotherβs past, the more questions she hasβand before she knows it, sheβs trapped in a gothic mystery of her own.
With as many twists and turns as the California coast,Β The Fiction WriterΒ is a page-turner that explores the boundaries of creative freedom and whose stories we have the right to tell.