The career of Oscar-winning actress Teri Squire is on the
skids following one bad movie after another. Her production
company, as well as her lover, are ready to dump her. What
Teri needs is an amazing screenplay, but where is she going
to find one when nobody has any faith in her ability?
Teri's salvation comes in the form of a most unusual
bequest from a man who dies after falling from a cliff
along a California highway. It seems he wrote a movie
script especially for Teri, who isn't sure she even wants
to read it. However, when the man's mother vehemently
insists, Teri accepts the bequest and sets it aside. Of
course, curiosity finally gets the best of Teri. What she
reads is excellent, and her production team agrees it has
to be made into a movie.
Two years later, the movie is finally set to be released.
What with all the hype concerning how the writer died and
his special bequest to Teri, opening weekend ticket sales
look to be astronomical. Teri's career is back on track and
everyone involved is ecstatic over the outcome. But it all
comes crashing down when an enigmatic stranger shows up
making claims that the bequest is fraudulent. The entire
project is in jeopardy as key players start turning up
dead. When the cops think it's murder, and consider Teri a
suspect, she has no choice but to run for her life.
Mike Farris's THE BEQUEST is a wickedly twisted,
fast-paced thriller that will keep readers enthralled first
page to last. The plot is cleverly devised with many
surprises in store until the suspenseful ending.
In the wake of a series of flops, two-time Oscar-winning
actress Teri Squire�s career is in a nosedive. She needs
to
find a great screenplay to fuel her comeback, but no
working screenwriter wants to commit a masterpiece to
someone who is box office poison. No one that is, except a
despondent and unproduced writer who bequeaths his last
script to Teri in his will then plunges off a cliff along
the Big Sur coastline of California.
In desperation, Teri accepts the bequest�and discovers the
script is brilliant. After turning it over to her
production team, and with the hype surrounding the
circumstances of the writer�s death, the movie is on
target
for a blockbuster opening weekend that promises to
resurrect Teri�s career�until a mysterious stranger
shows
up at her doorstep and casts doubt on what really happened
that night at Big Sur. As her comeback descends into chaos,
Teri finds herself as the prime suspect in a bizarre murder.
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