Fledgling actress Amelia Grant is at rock bottom when offered the opportunity of a lifetime: to play world-renowned romance author, Gloria Diamond, in a biopic. To prepare for the role, she ll spend a week with Gloria at her secluded Washington estate. It s a chance to get out of L.A., away from her cheating ex-boyfriend, and to make her recently deceased mother proud, who was Gloria s biggest fan.   Amelia s excitement is short-lived, however, once she arrives at the estate. Gloria is cold, verging on rude, and so different than her public persona – a widow-turned-romance writer who used her own whirlwind love story as inspiration for her books. But when Amelia stumbles upon a secret from Gloria s past, she realizes Gloria s life story is more fiction than fact, and Amelia’s own participation in the biopic is no coincidence.   Told in alternating points of view—Amelia in the present day and Gloria in the past—the novel examines wha