Jo Donovan is a recent widow of the renowned novelist (and notorious playboy) Hugo Donovan as well as the owner of one of the best literary agencies in town. All this is about to fall apart, as a would-be client turned stalker shops around a proposal for an unauthorized tell-all biography of Hugo, and a handsome old flame shows up without warning. Both a seasoned author and a former literary agent herself, Barbara Rogan knows the publishing world from all angles and tells a wickedly sharp tale that skewers the dangerous fictions we read – and the dangerous fictions we tell ourselves.