The Hunger Beneath Her Name by Emily Walsh

Description

Every story has an author.

Some stories have survivors.

Emery Roth has built an entire career disappearing behind other people’s words. As a ghostwriter, she transforms fractured memoirs and unfinished manuscripts into bestselling books while remaining invisible herself. Her own voice has always come second to everyone else’s.

Until one assignment changes everything.

When the estate of the late literary icon Isabel Hobbs hires Emery to complete the author’s final novel, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. The only requirement is that she relocate to the secluded cliffside estate where Isabel lived, worked, and died.

The house is beautiful.

The house is full of secrets.

Locked rooms, restricted archives, abandoned recordings, and handwritten revisions hint that Isabel’s final manuscript tells a story someone desperately wanted buried. At the center of every contradiction stands Caroline Hobbs, Isabel’s enigmatic widow. Elegant, composed, and impossible to decipher, Caroline insists the manuscript cannot be trusted. The publisher believes she’s protecting herself. The manuscript suggests she may have been Isabel’s greatest love, her creative partner, her captor…or something far more dangerous.

As Emery pieces together missing chapters and forgotten histories, the boundary between researcher and participant begins to disappear. Isabel’s stories have always blurred fiction and reality, transforming real women into unforgettable literary heroines without their consent. Now Emery fears she may be following the same path, becoming another woman rewritten by someone else’s narrative.

Complicating everything is Caroline herself.

The closer Emery comes to uncovering the truth, the harder it becomes to separate suspicion from attraction. Desire, grief, ambition, and manipulation intertwine until every page raises a new question: who owns a story, and what happens when someone else claims the right to tell yours?

Atmospheric, psychologically rich, and impossible to put down, The Hunger Beneath Her Name is a haunting sapphic gothic that explores authorship, memory, obsession, and the seductive power of storytelling. Emily Walsh delivers a mesmerizing literary thriller where every secret carries a price and every love story leaves its mark.

Book Details

• Author: Emily Walsh
• ISBN: 9798184911700
• Format: Paperback
• Genre: LGBTQ+ Gothic Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Literary Fiction
• Themes: Sapphic Romance, Obsession, Authorship, Identity, Psychological Mystery, Family Secrets