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He has the face. I have the voice. She is the audience we are both trying to fool.
Tristan Vane is the sun-golden, popular, and blindingly bright. Elias is the ash-silent, invisible, and easily swept away. When Tristan asks for help wooing Clara Thorne, the school's most brilliant and elusive girl, Elias agrees to be his ghostwriter.
Elias writes the letters that make her cry. He crafts the jokes that make her laugh. He builds the perfect boyfriend out of ink and lies, feeding Tristan the lines to win her heart.
It works perfectly. Clara falls for the soul in the letters, never suspecting it belongs to the boy in the shadows. But as the lie grows, so does Elias's ego. He realizes he isn't just writing a love story; he's pulling the strings.
In a game of ventriloquism, what happens when the puppet starts to believe he's real? And what happens when the girl realizes she's in love with a ghost?