The Counterpart (Gold Hill #2)

The Counterpart (Gold Hill #2)

Author: Ruby Landers Listening Length: 11h 12m
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Eloise Silver is an actor in need of a big break. Now in her mid-thirties, her biggest credits to date are just one Australian soap opera and a series of ice-cream commercials. Oh, and that one time she played a real-life mob boss’s wife on prime-time television. Suddenly, Estella Grant is no longer just the wife of a...

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Ellie was drifting. There was no other way to put it. It was the final day of shooting season seven of Universe Below and she could not keep it together.

“Action!” cried Anastasia for the fifth take of this scene — Estella Grant, gun in hand, murdering her husband — and Ellie could not do it. It felt like she was actively disassociating, hovering outside herself, watching the woman who she’d kissed, who she’d shared a bed with, take a human life.

It wasn’t like this series of events was news to her, for fuck’s sake!

Estella herself had admitted it. But the way the script was written, it wasn’t the final straw of an abused woman taking out the monster who’d tormented her, the way Alison — and also Ellie — believed it to be.