Pop Scars

<p><strong>The spotlight casts a long shadow.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Rebecca Ziel is in her mid-30s and life looks nothing like she once imagined. </strong>When a much-needed vacation with her best friend is canceled so she can ready a house for sale the disappointment is almost expected. But this isn't just any house; it's a multi-million dollar property belonging to B*Sweet the world's biggest pop star...of 1999.</p><p></p><p>The sprawling estate once a symbol of the performer's explosive fame is being slowly strangled by a tangle of trees leaving it a hollow reminder of what once was. After a decade under the conservatorship of her father B*Sweet is desperate and disillusioned an addict clinging to the past. As rumors of a comeback album and a tell-all memoir ripple through social media toxic friends manipulative family members and opportunistic paparazzi circle her like sharks while B*Sweet's increasingly erratic behavior hints that the quiet conflict over what's left of the star's legacy is about to get loud.</p><p></p><p><strong>When B*Sweet vanishes and her ghostwriter is found dead Rebecca must decide: stick to the job she was sent to do or risk everything to uncover the truth.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Can Rebecca find the missing singer and hold the guilty to account or will she drown in the darkness of a world she doesn't fully understand?</em></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>**For fans of literary mystery thrillers with complex female leads and dark celebrity secrets.**</em></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(136 136 136 1)>Trigger warnings: Contains themes of trauma addiction mental illness and scenes of violence</em></p>