How far would you go to take back a dream that was stolen from you?

Making movies is Adrienne Monet’s whole life. She’s an acclaimed writer, actor and director, and was labeled a rising star before she was 30.  But her best film was dumped after a studio takeover by male executives who were blind to her genius, condemning her to years of career frustration and identity crisis.

When she’s hired to adapt an award-winning Off-Broadway play, she’s sure it’s the perfect vehicle to restore her career.  But it’s the passion project of Egon Swift, a director of violent, sexist box-office hits, who only cares about whether the film will upgrade his sordid reputation.  Frustrated by Swift’s lack of a vision for the film, Adrienne tells him he’s out of his depth and should drop out of the project.  He flies into an insulted rage and assaults her, but she mortally wounds him and escapes unseen.

Adrienne convinces the studio to let her rescue the production.  Stalked by Buddy Ferino, an implacable NYPD detective who believes Adrienne shot Egon Swift to steal his job, she directs the film on the streets of New York, with Ferino getting ever closer to arresting her for murder.

A complex novel of suspense and moral tension in the spirit of Patricia Highsmith’s ‘Ripley’ novels, The Reckoning of Adrienne Monet is the harrowing story of one woman’s struggle to recover her career and her identity.