The once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is down on her luck. Her most recent novel, a retelling of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, was a flop, her boyfriend of nine years just dumped her and she's battling a bad case of writer's 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 job seems too good to be true. All she has to do is interview Henry "Ash" Asherwood, a reclusive mega billionaire, twice named People's Sexiest Man Alive, who wants her help in writing a book that reveals a shocking secret about his 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 grandmother's past, the more questions she has-and before she knows it, she's trapped in a gothic mystery of her own.
With as many twists and turns as the California coast, “The Fiction Writer” is a page-turner that explores the boundaries of creative freedom and whose stories we have the right to tell.
In this suspenseful listen inspired by Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA, narrator Allyson Ryan imparts a creeping sense of disquiet that will pull listeners in. Olivia, whose writing career is stalled, agrees to work as a "writer for hire" for billionaire Ash, who wants to publish a book asserting that du Maurier stole his grandmother Amelia's story for REBECCA. Olivia flies to Los Angeles to work with
