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No Second Take: A Tess Hollister Thriller
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 20 2026
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On a film set, everything is designed to look real. Someone has found a way to make murder look like part of the show.
Tess Hollister has spent fourteen years doing the things Hollywood stars are paid to appear to do. She has jumped motorcycles through explosions, fallen from buildings, crashed cars and broken enough bones to know the difference between danger and stupidity.
Tess isn't fearless. She knows better than that.
Good stunt performers are scared of exactly the right things.
So when a thirty-two-foot fall on the set of the multimillion-dollar action film Black Meridian goes catastrophically wrong, Tess knows almost immediately that what happened wasn't an accident. Someone has replaced a safety-critical piece of her rig with a near-perfect copy designed to fail under load.
Someone wanted her to fall.
The studio wants the problem contained. The evidence points towards people Tess has trusted with her life. And Detective Cal Ward quickly discovers that almost everyone surrounding Hollywood star Romy Hayes has something they would rather keep off camera.
Then the investigation begins uncovering surveillance, hidden money, manipulated schedules and evidence that somebody has been studying Tess long before the stunt ever went wrong.
What looked like an attempt to kill one woman begins to reveal something far more elaborate.
Because on a film set, appearances can be manufactured. Evidence can be staged. Faces can be copied. A convincing story can be created before anyone realises they are inside it.
And somewhere behind the cameras is somebody who understands exactly how Tess Hollister will react when another person is in danger.
They know she will run towards it.
They are counting on it.
Fast, cinematic, funny and packed with twists, No Second Take introduces Tess Hollister - a stuntwoman who knows how to survive almost anything, provided she can work out which danger is real before somebody calls action.
Because in Tess's world, you can rehearse the stunt. You can reset the cameras. You can even fake the impossible.
But when somebody is trying to kill you, there is no second take.
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