In Halcyon City, every frame is a lie and every contract hides a knife. Nora Kass has spent three years buried in rewrites and overnight script sessions to develop Dawnfall, the one series that could finally put her name on the screen as an executive producer. The streaming giant Lumina+ is ready to sign, the buzz is building—and then, overnight, the deal dies. Her cutthroat colleague Dex Harrow “forgets” to lock down the director, sabotages the pitch, and walks away with her project, her credit, and her future. Her mentor quits in disgust, her actor friends are being pimped out at industry “parties,” and the company’s golden reputation is rotting from the inside out. Nora was hired to quietly fix other people’s messes. This time, she’s going to burn the whole playbook. With a ruthless investor-actress who hates Dex even more than she does, a sweet but desperate nearly-famous actor who keeps getting used as bait, and a deceptively chaotic junior assistant who’s secretly a fangirl of Nora’s work, Nora starts rewriting the script of the entire production—contracts, cash flow, casting, and all. The industry thinks she’s just another exhausted development girl. They’re about to find out what happens when the “little” producer runs the show—and decides it’s payback time.
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