New York Times bestselling author, Catherine Steadman, paints a mystery fiction story about the truth hiding in Hollywood.

Mia Eliot, a talented actress from London, decides to hop on a flight to Los Angeles in order to forget about her boyfriend who left her for a younger actress and to secure her big break.

Shedding the cold air of London and stepping into the bright, sunny skies of California, Mia slowly starts to reimagine her life. She’s given a nice hotel room, a beautiful rental car and audition scripts to prepare for her potential roles. 

Her agent lines her up for several auditions, and at one she meets a woman in the waiting room, Emily. 

They spoke briefly while waiting their turn to audition, and after things got delayed, Emily thought she better feed the meter where her car sat outside the building. Mia offered to do it for her since Emily was being called in to audition next.

After paying the meter, Mia re-entered the building and Emily was nowhere to be found. Mia was left with the mere acquaintances’ keys and credit card, but it was her turn next so she went in to audition. 

She looked everywhere for Emily afterward – in the bathroom, back in the parking lot and another quick scan around the building, but she had vanished. 

The secretary in the building said she could not hold on to Emily’s belongings, so she went to leave her a note with her phone number under the car windshield. She met a young, handsome man named Nick, who worked in the area and said he would keep a lookout. 

After a day or two of desperately trying to get this strange woman’s things back to her, she decided to go and look in her rental car. She found her number on a rental document and sent her a text.

Another day goes by and Emily finally texts Mia back that she will come and collect her keys and wallet that night. When she comes to Mia’s hotel, Mia slowly realizes the woman at the door is not Emily.

“Her face is extremely similar to Emily’s but it’s not Emily’s,” Mia told herself. “I study her features – full lips, chestnut hair, thick brows, a smudge of eye shadow and pale skin – all like Emily’s, but not.”

She quizzes the woman about a fake coffee date they had made prior, and she falls for the trap, so Mia knows this is definitely not Emily.

Distraught with what she had done, giving Emily’s belongings to what seems to be a stranger, Mia made it her mission to find out what happened to Emily, and why someone was pretending to be her.  

In all the craziness, Mia was auditioning for the role of a lifetime and tried her best to stay prepared. 

The psychological thriller continues twisting its audience down an unforeseen path. You are left guessing throughout the entire book and nothing is as it seems.