Nova Lane has the kind of face the camera worshipsâand the kind of life millions think they want. Red carpets, screaming fans, a PR-perfect boyfriend, a manager who âknows whatâs best.â And a twin sister no one is supposed to know exists. When a grainy hotel photo goes viral, the internet decides Nova cheated on her golden-boy co-star. Careers are built and destroyed on weaker rumors, so Novaâs manager âfixesâ it the way she fixes everything else: She makes the quiet twin take the fall. For the cameras, itâs simple. Novaâs âsisterâ was the one in the photo. The star is innocent; the unknown girl becomes the villain. Overnight, the internet turns a stranger into a monsterâand that stranger is the only person who has ever tried to protect Nova. Then her sister turns up dead on a hotel sofa, an empty pill bottle by her hand. Before Nova can grieve, her manager gives her a new script: switch identities. To the world, the girl who died was Nova Lane, tragic victim of online hate. The girl still breathing will inherit the brand, the contracts, the money. She just has to live as the wrong sister. Locked in a house wired with cameras, drilled on her own mannerisms as if they belong to someone else, Nova begins to split under the pressure. Memories blur. Names twist. Some days sheâs sure sheâs the twin who died. Some nights she swears she still sees her falling. A therapist calls it guilt and trauma. A detective calls it evidence. Because Novaâs âmotherâ isnât her mother at all. Sheâs a trafficker who stole two little girls for profitâand killing one of them was just another business decision. If Nova wants to stop seeing her sister in every reflective surface, she has to do the one thing sheâs never done in her life: Step out of the spotlight⊠and drag the woman who made her into a star into it instead. Fame built on a stolen face can turn into a murder confession in one live interview. And once the truth is out, Nova has to decide whether she deserves to keep breathing at all.
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