Cat takes Lora under her wing and promises to help her achieve all her dreams, plunging her into the luxurious fringes of New York's high society elite.īut some things are too good to be true, obviously. The plot is this: Lora Ricci is signing on to be the new intern at ELLE magazine when she comes into the orbit of the glamorous and influential contributing editor, Cat Wolff. This one is especially fun because it's like DEVIL WEARS PRADA meets CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, and I believe it's loosely inspired by the case of Anna Sorokin. I love how breezy they are, and the compulsive readability. I don't know what you call chick-litty thrillers like these, but they're one of my favorite genres of fiction. Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest Composed of diary entries, emails, FBI correspondence, and more, Cover Story is a fresh, fun, and wholly original novel that takes readers deep into the codependency and deceit found in a relationship built on power imbalance and lies. But as Lora is drawn into Cat's glamorous lifestyle, Cat's perfect exterior cracks, exposing an illicit, shady world.Ī whip-smart and delightfully inventive writer, Susan Rigetti brilliantly pieces together a perceptive, humorous caper full of sharp observations about scam culture. Writing during the day and accompanying Cat to extravagant parties at night, Lora's life quickly shifts from looming nightmare to dream-come-true.

Lora agrees and, when the internship ends, she moves into Cat's suite at the opulent Plaza Hotel.

Cat's solution: Drop out of NYU and become her ghostwriter. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting her help with side projects and encouraging her writing.Īs a friendship emerges between the two women, Lora opens up to Cat about her desperate struggles and lost scholarship. Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can, a captivating novel about an ambitious young woman who gets trapped in a charismatic con artist's scam.Īfter a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul.

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