About This Book
Mia Eliot arrives in Los Angeles chasing the dream every actor knows — the role that changes everything. But Hollywood runs on performance and deception, and when a woman she befriended at an audition vanishes, Mia finds herself tangled in something far more dangerous than a missed callback. The question isn't just where Emily went. It's whether Emily ever was who she claimed to be — and whether Mia can trust her own memory of the woman she met.
Steadman uses the unreality of Hollywood as more than backdrop; the industry's architecture of illusion bleeds directly into the plot's central tension, making the setting feel thematically earned rather than incidental. The prose moves with the nervous energy of someone who suspects she's being watched, and the novel's real pleasure is in how Steadman keeps the ground shifting beneath both Mia and the reader. Just when the picture seems to clarify, another layer peels away. It's the kind of thriller that rewards close reading — small details placed early pay off quietly, without fanfare.
