The Assistant

A Pulse Pounding Thriller

Her job is to protect powerful secrets. Now she’s trapped inside one.

Laney Marrs has built a career anticipating the needs of Hollywood’s elite—fixing problems, burying scandals, and never asking questions she doesn’t want answered.

The job is degrading, exhausting, and temporary—or so she keeps telling herself.

But when she wakes up in a New Orleans hotel beside her famous employer with no memory of how she got there—cameras start flashing, and paparazzi are buzzing.

Hours later, her boss and his wife turn up brutally murdered—a killing violent enough to seize every breaking news headline and drag Laney into the spotlight.

As public outrage grows, Laney begins to suspect the narrative surrounding her has been carefully constructed.

The deeper she digs, the more unsettling the inconsistencies become: chilling alliances with foreign operatives, hushed payoffs that buy permanent silence, and a vanished relic someone—anyone—will do anything to possess.

With her career destroyed, her reputation shredded, and powerful people closing in, Laney has one option—figure out who’s pulling the strings before she becomes the final victim.

The Assistant is a high-stakes, fast-paced thriller with razor-sharp Tinseltown twists and a darkly funny edge.

©2023 Bonny Fawn (P)2026 Bonny Fawn

Ready or Not—The Chase is ON!

I loved the intricate setup. The main character, a smart, ambitious young lady, gets framed and has to navigate a dangerous web of foreign agents. It’s fast-paced, intense, and seeing her fight to clear her name against such huge odds was gripping. The sheer paranoia of the situation kept me hooked. Framed and on the run, she is forced into a deadly game where no one is who they seem to be. Watching her navigate a web of foreign operatives while realizing she has no one left to trust makes for a brilliantly tense experience.