Book Blurb:
A deadly addictive horror/slasher romance filled with dangerous desires on a film set where no one is safe.
The cameras are rolling, the scene is set, and the stakes are deadly. On this set, no one is safe.
Five years ago, Purdy Marin’s wedding was shattered when her fiancé, Sawyer Delambre, accused her of cheating—at the altar. Humiliated and fed up, she ditched town and never looked back.
Years later, Purdy now goes by “Andi,” and has a happy, albeit humble, life in the city. She thought she’d left the nightmare of Sawyer behind, but he has other plans. Sawyer, an aspiring director, assembled the perfect trap—a chilling horror script, the funding to make it real, and Andi cast in the starring role. Strapped for cash, she agrees.
But Sawyer isn’t the only one looking for the spotlight. His older brother, Asher, has quietly loved Andi for years. Now cast as her on-screen husband, Ash has the excuse he’s always wanted—to finally stand where his brother once stood.
As the cameras roll, alliances shift, and buried secrets rise to the surface. Everyone has motives. Everyone believes they're directing the show. But Andi may be the most dangerous player of all. She’s spent years letting Sawyer tell her story. This is her shot to write her own ending.
But every ending comes with a cost. And in every found footage, the story only survives because someone didn’t.
Tropes:
*Netgalley ALC *Horror romance *Dark Romance *Friends to more *spice *toxic ex
*love triangle (sort of) *found footage *family drama *dark secrets *unhinged characters
*Morally gray MMC *slasher Vibes *check your triggers *flash backs
Thoughts:
Andi (FMC) left her home town on her wedding day after her fiance humiliated her at the alter in front of all their family and friends. She started a new life in Chicago and hoped not to return home but her mother's funeral finds her back in town where she meets back up with her ex (Sawyer) and his older brother Asher.
Andi, Sawyer and Asher were childhood friends (and neighbors). Throughout the book there are time jumps to different places in their past and the present where we find out that the two brothers share a dark secret together that they have been holding onto.
Andi returns home (but not before hooking up with Asher. Once home life moves along as expected until Sawyer (who is unhinged/toxic) finds her and makes an offer for her to be in his found footage horror movie. She declines at first wanting nothing to do with him ends up in a position that she never wanted to be in again... depending on Sawyer for support she is now homeless, jobless and broke and he offers her a decent amount of money to return home with him and work on this project.
Asher has put all of his money into an old mansion where he plans to make a haunted house for people to come to... Sawyer talks him into letting his movie be made there and now they need to stay in this house because he has sold the home they are living in to fund this movie.
Now Andi is back in town and staying with Asher and Sawyer... the ex and the new love interest, brothers and both unhinged in different ways what could possibly go wrong?
The cast and crew are all staying in this house together to start filming when right away nothing is going as expected... in fact did Sawyer ever plan to follow through with anything?
Right away the original script wasn't approved now they are doing Sawyers script... only he has made things eerily similar to their failed wedding attempt...
Andi realizes pretty soon that she is in a living nightmare she never should have come back her ex is now even worse than she even remembered... and he seems set on the idea that they will be getting back together by the end of this film, but she has set her sights on a different brother... things are going to get messy and fast.
This gave all those horror/slasher movie vibes with lots of drama, paranoia of who can you trust? and even though I've seen enough of these movies to see where most of this story was heading it was a wild ride and I had to know what would happen next.
The narrators did a great job bringing these characters to life Luke Persiani really made Sawyer feel unhinged and terrible... which he is. This had me shouting at everyone else to be smarter about things multiple times.
The MMC was morally grey but truly cared about our FMC and always has. Our FMC has had a hard life but never gives up. I truly was rooting for Andi and Asher and if you read this you know that they should have been the ones together to begin with it was meant to be.
If you enjoy darker romance or horror/slasher romance add this one to your tbr.
Have you read this one? What did you think?
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