The Hunger Beneath Her Name

By Emily Walsh

A ghostwriter. A dead literary icon. A widow with too many versions of the truth.

Emery Roth has built a career disappearing into other people's stories. She writes celebrity memoirs, salvages bad novels, and makes strangers sound wounded, wise, and unforgettable while her own name stays off the cover.

Then she is offered the job that could save her: finish the final manuscript of Isabel Hobbs, the beloved and dangerous author whose novels made women's desire sound like a crime scene.

There is one condition. Emery must live at the Hobbs estate, a cliffside house full of locked rooms, restricted files, and the widow everyone has turned into a myth.

Caroline Hobbs is elegant, controlled, and impossible to read. She says Isabel's last book is lying. The publisher says Caroline is protecting herself. The manuscript says the widow may have been muse, collaborator, jailer, and murderer.

As Emery studies Isabel's pages, she finds missing chapters, private recordings, red-inked refusals, and the names of women Isabel turned into art without permission. The deeper Emery goes, the harder it becomes to tell whether she is uncovering the truth or becoming the next woman rewritten by it.

And Caroline is not only a suspect. She is the one person who sees exactly what Emery wants.

The Hunger Beneath Her Name is a dark sapphic gothic romantic suspense novel about obsession, authorship, desire, exploitation, and the terrible cost of being turned into someone else's story.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H6YKW8YY
• ISBN13: 9798184911700
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"