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The Hollywood Assistant

May Cobb

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Named a Most Anticipated Read of 2024 by Zibby Media ∙ Jordy's Book Club ∙ Novel Suspects ∙ The Nerd Daily ∙ Pure Wow ∙ She Reads ∙ and more!

Offered a dream job in Hollywood with a famous director and his actress wife, an insecure woman becomes their personal assistant where their secrets and lies place her in the crosshairs of a murder investigation...from the bestselling author of The Hunting Wives.

Cassidy Foster is heartbroken, stuck in life, and getting a little too obsessed with plants. Then when a well-connected friend becomes sick of Cassidy's moping and gets her a gig with famous Hollywood couple, Marisol and Nate Sterling, Cassidy jumps at the chance to move to sunny LA.

The Sterlings are warm and welcoming. A perfect couple. All Cassidy has to do is be available a few hours a week for errands. In return, she has access to luxury: Designer clothes. A sparkling pool. Great pay.

When Nate takes interest in her, asking her to read scripts he's written, Cassidy thinks this could be the key to kickstarting her writing dreams. As their business relationship grows, so does their attraction. Nate is sexy and talented, and Cassidy can't believe her luck. Clearly, Marisol doesn't know what she has. Maybe that's why the two are always fighting when they think Cassidy isn't around.

But Cassidy learns she was hired for a different purpose. The Sterlings aren't the perfect couple. Marisol isn't the perfect wife. And when one of them is found dead, Cassidy becomes the perfect suspect.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Berkley Books
  • Publish Date: Jul 9th, 2024
  • Pages: 416
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.34in - 6.29in - 1.35in - 1.33lb
  • EAN: 9780593546826
  • Categories: Thrillers - SuspenseWomen

About the Author

May Cobb is an award-winning author of The Hunting Wives, My Summer Darlings, A Likeable Woman, and Big Woods. Her books have received attention from Book-of-the-Month Club, the Today show, and Oprah Daily and have been optioned for film and TV. She has an MA from San Francisco State University and her essays and interviews have appeared in the Washington Post and Good Housekeeping. She currently lives in Austin with her family. Her novel The Hunting Wives is soon to be a series on STARZ.

Praise for this book

"May Cobb pulls back the curtain on Hollywood glamor in a sexy, twisty mystery that will have readers guessing (and gasping) until the very last page. "
--Robyn Harding, internationally bestselling author of The Drowning Woman

"May Cobb hits it out of the park yet again with this juicy, twisty thriller about a dream job that quickly turns into a nightmare. With a sun-soaked California setting, ratcheting tension, and simmering secrets coming to a boil, The Hollywood Assistant is a read that demands to be finished in one setting. Sexy, addictive, and bursting with complicated marriage and relationship dynamics... any reader will be desperate to know what happens next."
--Laurie Elizabeth Flynn, author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here