The Divide: A novel By Morgan Richter

In this darkly comic thriller, Jenny St. John, a failed actress now hustling as a grifting psychic, is drawn into a dangerous mystery when her doppelgnger, Gena Santos, goes missing. Once poised to be an indie film star, Jenny's Hollywood dreams crumbled after her debut film, The Divide, flopped. Two decades later, she scrapes by as a psychic life coach, exploiting the desperate and delusional. But her life takes a dramatic turn when Serge Grumet, the director who once promised her fame, is found murdered.

Jenny soon discovers that Gena, Serge’s ex-wife and an acclaimed painter, looks so much like her that the police mistake Jenny for the missing woman. Intrigued and desperate, Jenny seizes the opportunity to step into Gena’s world, using her fake psychic skills and newfound resemblance to infiltrate the glamorous yet treacherous circles of Hollywood’s elite. As she mingles with a cast of eccentric A-listers—a K-pop idol-turned-social media sensation, an Oscar-winning actress turned wellness guru—Jenny uncovers shocking secrets that link her own past to the dangerous present.

Navigating a web of lies, murder, and corruption, Jenny's quest to find Gena and uncover the truth becomes a high-stakes game where her own life is on the line. Blending sharp wit with suspense, this novel is a twisted, addictive ride through Hollywood's dark side, where nothing is as it seems and everyone has something to hide.