

June edits the novel and passes it off as her own, and no one seems the wiser, but once the novel becomes a smash success, cracks begin to form.

When Athena suddenly dies, June, almost accidentally, walks off with her latest manuscript, a novel about the World War I Chinese Labour Corps.

While June has had little success since publication and is struggling to write her second novel, Athena has become a darling of the publishing industry, much to June’s frustration. after graduation, and are both writers, but the similarities end there. June Hayward and Athena Liu went to Yale together, moved to D.C. What happens when a midlist author steals a manuscript and publishes it as her own?
