The Invention of Clay McKenzie

📖 The Scoop

She's got everything she needs to publish a best-selling book — except a charismatic author!

Making it in publishing as an editor is daunting but Stephanie Masters has found just what she needs—a brilliant first novel by an unknown writer. Meeting him, she learns he is a recluse—the man is unable and unwilling to promote his book and her New York publishing house won’t go for that. Without promotion the book won’t sell.

Unwilling to lose her one chance to rise to the top, Stephanie enlists friends to carry out a deception. They hire a little-known actor and use him to create an author brand.

It's a precarious effort and she holds things together through a dizzying ride to bestsellerdom. But all too soon, forces outside her control threatening her scheme, her career, and her relationships. And from this point, it’s a long way to fall. 

Genre: Fiction / Psychological (fancy, right?)