Killing His Alter-Ego

By Michelle Levigne

After acting in his cousin's film school project, Kyle is offered the starring role in the science-fiction TV series Bridger. Its overnight success forces him into the reluctant role of heartthrob. Raine is a high school sophomore when her TV writer mentor convinces her to write a script for Bridger. When she's cast as her own female lead, Jess, she meets Kyle. Loving Bridger is easy, but immature Kyle breaks her heart. When the show ends, Kyle gladly leaves Hollywood to return to his family's wilderness outfitting station in Colorado. Raine goes on to earn her veterinary degree. 

Years later, they meet again. Wearing a beard and having dropped his stage name, Kyle manages to convince Raine he isn't the jerk who shattered her last time. But their growing friendship is threatened when fandom pressure convinces the network to revive Bridger, with Raine and Kyle reprising their roles. The revelation of his minor deception pushes their relationship backwards again. As Kyle struggles to regain Raine's trust, and maybe win her love, she struggles to see him for who he is--not as Bridger or the jerk he used to be. Then a new problem emerges. Someone doesn't want the series to return to TV. They want it badly enough to threaten Raine, Kyle, and the whole production.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing
• Release date: Feb 24, 2024
• ISBN: 9781925574647

Michelle Levigne

On the road to publication, Michelle fell into fandom in college and has 40+ stories in various SF and fantasy universes. She has a bunch of useless degrees in theater/English/film/communication/writing. Even worse, she has (or had) nearly 100 books and novellas with multiple small presses, in science fiction and fantasy, YA, and sub-genres of romance. Her official launch into publishing came with winning first place in the Writers of the Future contest in 1990. She was a finalist in the EPIC Awards competition multiple times, winning with Lorien in 2006 and The Meruk Episodes, I-V, in 2010, and was a finalist in the 2018 Realm Award competition, in conjunction with the Realm Makers convention. Her training includes the Institute for Children’s Literature; proofreading at an advertising agency; and working at a community newspaper. She is a tea snob and freelance edits for a living ([e-mail] for info/rates), but only enough to give her time to write. Her newest crime against the literary world is to be co-managing editor at Mt. Zion Ridge Press. Be afraid … be very afraid.     www.Mlevigne.com www.MichelleLevigne.blogspot.com @MichelleLevigne