Ghost Light

A Ghost Light is a light left on a stage in an otherwise darkened theatre. Standing alone, it offers light to the last ones there and the first to arrive. Casting a glow to light the way for the brave souls who venture into the dark void of the empty house, illuminating a few vacant seats, and showing you the stairs for safe passage down and out.

He's a big time movie star, landing role after role, always playing the good guy, the hero, the one left standing, and is a reluctant role model for many because of this, but he feels alone. Alone on a darkened stage, just waiting for some trap door to open and let him out of the spotlight for just a second.

She's the somewhat mousy writer who wrote the book, the book that was so successful it is being turned into a TV series, which she has also been asked to write, and may just have a starring role in, to boot. But she used a false name on the title for a reason, she doesn't like all of the attention, the only way she was brave enough in the first place was to become her own ghost writer.

Trying to get a bit of a freer schedule, James Nelson takes this job without much research, not thinking he might be also taking on the handful of a writer and costar he gained in the process, not to mention what is left unspoken between them.

Trying to find spare time just became a realization that time isn't what matters, it's what you occupy it with.