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Smile for the Cameras

Miranda Smith · Horror · 304 pages

37 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

psychological thrillerlocked roomcat and mousetwist endingsurvival
slasherpsychological thriller
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#281 All Time

About this book

An actress desperate to reclaim her fame must survive the real-life plot of the horror movie that made her famous in this psychologically twisted locked-room thriller. “A gloriously glossy solid slasher with more unexpected twists than a roller coaster . . . Fans of ’90s horror flicks (like me) are going to lap this up.”—John Marrs, USA Today bestselling author of The Family Experiment A CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Twenty years ago, Ella Winters was the it girl. She made a name for herself in Hollywood and throughout America as the sole survivor in the cult-classic slasher Grad Night. But the real horror is what happened when the cameras weren’t rolling—something terrible that Ella and her co-stars agreed never to speak of again. Shortly after the movie’s premiere, Ella disappeared from the acting scene under the pretense of caring for her ailing mother, hoping for a quiet life out of the spotlight to ease her guilty mind. Since her mother’s passing, Ella has decided to return to

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