PAPERCUT

Lucy Golden is a total true-crime icon, famous for killing her way out of a California cult twenty years ago. But as literally everyone in LA knows, fame has a super short shelf life, and Lucy’s whole personal brand is always one trending topic away from irrelevance. On top of that, she’s currently dealing with a creepy stalker, mediating an absolute cold war between her high-fashion photographer mom and her chaotic rockstar sister, and dodging unhinged online trolls who are asking way too many specific questions about her backstory—the kind of receipts that could ruin her life.

So when a hotshot docuseries director offers to turn her survival story into a glossy main-character film, Lucy spots the ultimate chance to control the narrative and shut down the hater comments once and for all. But production means she has to go back to the desert and come face-to-face with the messy characters from her past. Plot twist: her actual history isn't matching up with her curated lore, and long-buried secrets are colliding with very real, present-day threats. Now Lucy has to stop internet sleuths from uncovering the truth before her entire life gets canceled.

Told through dual timelines—switching between current-day chaos and excerpts from her viral bestseller—Paper Cut is a total psychological mind-meld. It’s dark California cult noir meets a savage callout of our collective true-crime obsession, and it will have you completely hooked from page one.