A Life in Drafts...

In the quiet hours before dawn, she writes-page after page, line after line-yet nothing she creates ever feels entirely her own.

Within her manuscript lives Jaileen Liley, a young woman of privilege and promise, and at her side, the ever-faithful Giselle-whose heart remains bound across the sea to a man in Marseilles. But distance has a way of distorting truth, and when letters begin to deceive and a stranger steps forward under a borrowed name, certainty gives way to doubt.

As affection falters and suspicion grows, the lives she has written begin to take on a will of their own-straying further from her control with every chapter.

Caught between imitation and invention, between what is written and what is real, she must confront a question far more daunting than any story:

Can one ever truly create something original... or are all lives, in the end, only drafts of something else?