Former child-star Salma Lowe knows best that Hollywood is a sickness. Now a tour guide, she spends her days leading tourists around Hollywood, pointing out places where stars have met their untimely ends. That's another thing Salma knows better than most, that a tragic death can propel someone to stardom. Her own sister, dubbed "the Hurricane Blonde," was murdered in the mid-90s and her case still remains unsolved but infamous. Salma has removed herself from the spotlight and wants to keep it that way, until her tour group discover a very real dead body on her sister's old property.

It doesn't take Salma long to realise something is off - the dead actress looks exactly like her sister, even wearing Tawney's distinctive hair clip. When the investigation leads nowhere, Salma has no choice but to step back into the spotlight and find her sister's killer. A killer who may have just struck again. The search for truth will pull her deep into the rot of Hollywood and into her family's own history, including the buried and terrible secrets they keep.

Her recent string of go-nowhere jobs in the New York publishing scene has made Harper Cruz desperate for a position that will pay the bills. When she stumbles upon an influencer's job listing offering triple her last pay check, she impulsively submits her résumé. Although she may not be familiar with the self-help guru influencer Charlotte Green and the cult-like following her optimism and charisma has amassed, it's clear she sees something she likes in Harper when she is chosen for the position. Despite the less than twenty-four hour turnaround sine applying, Harper accepts, quickly becoming the newest face of The Greenhouse.

The leap of faith means moving to Nashville, where she is soon dazzles by the world Charlotte has built in Music City. The Greenhouse is more than work, it's family, and Harper is swept up by it. She adores working at such an inspirational place where there are mandatory dance parties, group bonding activities, and daily intentions that bond them together. The feeling of family helps make up for the long hours and her boss's constant demand for loyalty. But the longer Harper stays, the deeper she is pulled into the world of Charlotte, soon realising that having it all and being it all comes with a price.

As a Black ballet dancer in a cutthroat and unfair industry, Laure Mesny has an axe to grind. Continuously overlooked for the role, she will do anything to prove a Black girl can be centre stage. And to level the playing field, Laure must strike a deal with a pulsating river of blood flowing deep in the Catacombs.

The power she gains is everything she dreamed of and soon she is surpassing her bitter and privileged peers, climbing on broken bodies to achieve her stardom. Laure is not the only monster and her vicious desire for retribution makes her the perfect kill. Her rise through the ballet industry is mirrored by her descent into the underworld soon leaving Laure to make an ultimate choice: continue to break for scraps of success or let the darkness consume her exactly as she is, monstrous heart and all.