Release Date: March 16, 2027
About The Book:
Hollywood, 1990. Before #MeToo. Before cell phones. Before the internet. The decade is turning. MTV is minting millionaires overnight. The music industry and the film business are locked in a seductive, transactional embrace — and somewhere in the space between them, young women with talent and hunger are learning exactly what that hunger is going to cost them.
Franny Lane is a girl who remembers her dreams — every detail, in color. As the youngest female in senior management at Sojourn Records, she has built her career entirely on that instinct: on seeing what others miss, on believing in things before the world catches up. When she lands her favorite band on the soundtrack of the year’s biggest film, she catches the attention of Don Bradford, the most powerful producer in Hollywood.
Franny tries to keep him at arm’s length. In this town, that’s not a strategy — it’s an invitation.
What follows is not a simple story of predator and victim. It’s a story about how smart women get caught — not through naivety, but through longing. For connection. For a seat at a table the world has made very clear they aren’t supposed to want.
When a woman turns up dead at Don’s house — and Franny’s fingerprints are found on the gun — everything she has built is suddenly at stake. To survive, she will have to outmaneuver the most dangerous man she has ever
known — and reckon with what it truly means to win.
About The Author:
Samantha Hart is the author of Blind Pony, a poignant memoir of growing up in Hollywood as a runaway teen.Sam went on to become a Hollywood studio executive, first in the music industry at Geffen Records, and then in film, responsible for marketing some of the decade’s best-loved independent films. Those years — inside the rooms where deals were struck and reputations made or broken — gave her an unvarnished view of an industrymthat runs on ambition, appetite, and reinvention.
In her debut novel, Desperation Will Kill You, she draws on that world to tell a story of love, power, and revenge set against Hollywood’s last great, ruthless era. She is currently at work on her next novel, Witty, a romantic comedy with an edge. Samantha lives in the Pacific Northwest and sometimes in LA.
Social Media:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealsamhart
Book Blurbs:
“A rollicking retro Tinseltown thriller.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Brisk, dishy Hollywood thriller of love, sex, power, and revenge.”—BookLife Reviews
“A page-turning thriller that explores the ego-larded world of L.A.’s film and music industries in acompelling story of identity, ambition, and love.”— IndieReader
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