Best Seller Obsession — Linda Hughes

Can the desire to be a bestselling author drive a person to kill? Best Seller Obsession, the sixth novel by Linda Hughes, shares how two lives intersect with dire consequences.Ignored by her father and unwanted by her mother, Grace Webster finds comfort in reading, escaping into a world of imaginary heroes and heroines. Discovering she is pregnant, overwhelming realities set in. Her college plans abandoned-along with a path to leave her miserable life in the Hamptons-she flees to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to hide and deliver the unwanted baby.Alone, introverted, and antisocial, her young life, full of inner guilt and shame, soon goes from bad to worse. While in Myrtle Beach, Grace meets Jeffery Anderson, a deranged wannabe bestselling author. He is determined to do anything within his power-even murder-to fulfill his resolve to write a bestseller . . . thus gaining fame and notoriety.