Present Day:
Chloe--the actress who was born to die from her very first movie
Jesse Gates--the man who has written his first screenplay and is watching it being made into a movie.
1780s
Esther Longfellow Hobart--an ancestor of Chloe's and the subject of the movie Jesse wrote
Hamilton Lightfoot--an ancestor of Jesse's and the writer of the love letter that is the key to the movie.
Chloe is known as the actress who dies well. She has died in every movie she's acted in. She wants one movie where she lives at the end of it. She also believes in romance and finding "The One" perfect mate for her.
Her world falls apart when a new studio owner comes in and orders the director to either finish the movie in two weeks with some hard edits or hand it over to another director. Jesse refuses to do the edits and walks off the set and goes home.
Rachel Hauck's technique of moving between the history of the movie characters and her present day characters keep the readers on their toes. In some places the changes are pretty tight, but in other places, the switch between history and present day are just too abrupt to follow easily. All in all, this is a solid four-star book, entirely entertaining, and worth the time to read.
My thanks to Thomas Nelson Publishing for providing the book through NetGalley.com, for me to read and review.
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