Starting off in 1978, freshly 17-year-old Anastasia is a troubled girl who, on the outside, has a picture-perfect relationship with her mother. But after a traumatic experience with her step-father her mother turns against her, and she realizes the only thing she has is a hope for a better life and a dream of being a star. This is a story about a girl doing whatever she can, including using her body, to get to the top. When she inevitably runs away, her one friend Oliver decides to go with her. As Anastasia and Oliver slowly climb the social ladder in Hollywood, they both learn some tough lessons about the industry and life itself, and eventually crashing and burning. But you know what they say, the higher they climb, the harder they fall.
TW: SA, Drug Use, Aggressive Language, Sexual Content/Smut,
A campus thriller: suspense, murder & one handsome roommate.
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When Haley Bell is offered a scholarship to study at the exclusive Woodcreek College, famous for moulding the world's brightest thinkers, politicians and entrepreneurs, she jumps at the opportunity.
Except when she arrives, the murders start.
In a campus hidden from civilisation in the mountains of Colorado, Haley's classmates are slowly turning up dead. As the bodies pile up and eyes of suspicion turn on her, Haley finds that there's a reason why she was brought to Woodcreek.
And it wasn't to study.
"That opening line will hook you (I still think about it) & it DOESN'T STOP! I binged this like crazy" - Leah, Sr. Editorial Manager @ HQ
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Cover designed by Ellie Sita