Fic­tion

In Pur­suit of Beauty

  • From the Publisher
September 1, 2024

What would you endure to ful­fill your dreams? What would you do to have the per­fect body? 

For Dr. Roya Delshad, the answers are any­thing and every­thing. A sought-after Bev­er­ly Hills plas­tic sur­geon, Roya is also the high­est exam­ple of her craft. She’s had every inch of her own body sculpt­ed, one pro­ce­dure at a time. All to escape a painful and lone­ly past. 

But when Roya gives the gift of beau­ty to those who can’t afford the cost, the media labels her the Robin Hood of Rox­bury Dri­ve, and she soon finds her­self plead­ing her case from inside a prison cell. 

Hop­ing to res­ur­rect her rep­u­ta­tion and obscure a trail of unhap­py clients, Roya tells her sto­ry with the help of jour­nal­ist and failed screen­writer Wes Eas­t­on, who agrees to ghost­write her mem­oir. In a twist­ing­ly tense pas de deux, Wes strug­gles to tell fact from fic­tion, and Roya seeks to explode his notions about aspi­ra­tion and desire, send­ing their col­lab­o­ra­tion off the rails.

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