Someone Like You

✍ Scribed by Becky Alexander

• Book ID: 112179381
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 165 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781805083214
• ASIN: B0CN3THXK9

✦ Synopsis

"It’s nice to finally meet you, Jemima," Rebecca Sheridan says, her voice soft. I force a smile, and tug at the hem of my faded black dress. I need this job so badly, but I can’t let her see that. Just like she can’t know I have no money, that this isn’t my real accent. That most of my friends are gone… or dead.
I say yes when she offers me the role. I'll soon learn Rebecca's polished smile masks secrets far darker than my own.
Every day I rehearse. I spend hours running lines with the other lead, whose vacant expression and tearful outbursts make me uneasy. I try to ignore how Rebecca cuts me down then builds me up. How the others stop talking when I enter the room.
Why am I really here? Am I just a pawn in some twisted game?
No. There’s no way she can know who I really am.
What I did. What I'm capable of…
Right?..M.F