The Final Draft

When struggling writer Kasey Kidd receives an eviction notice and a lifeline from her agent-a ghost-writing job for the celebrated Graves mystery series-she thinks she's been saved. But the moment she steps into the crumbling Graves estate, the air is thick with secrets.

In the chaos of Marion Graves's office, Kasey discovers a hidden manuscript marked For No One. Its chilling pages recount the night the Graves' infant son died-what the world believed was SIDS may have been something far darker.

As Kasey works on the series, she begins to weave a fictionalised version of Marion's confessions into her drafts, unsure if she's exorcising demons or planting a bomb. Her growing bond with Willa, unlocks half-buried memories: screaming, a door closing, and her father standing over the crib.

The deeper Kasey digs, the more the past unravels-hidden tapes, altered manuscripts, and the mounting suspicion that Marion's "accident" wasn't accidental at all. When a USB surfaces with the unedited manuscript and a damning recording, the truth becomes inescapable: Terence Graves has been guarding more than a family legacy.

Offered a book deal for her memoir, Kasey pens The Final Draft, a tribute to "the woman who never stopped protecting the truth." But as she reads before a packed audience, one question lingers-what story will she dare to tell next?