Ellis's debut novel receives all kinds of awards and rave reviews. She lives her new life of success and luxury with different guys every night and constantly traveling along the Mediterranean coast surrounded by artist friends. Until one day, she receives a plagiarism lawsuit from Chase, her ex-husband, a frustrated writer who had to put aside his literary dreams and now claims that Ellis copied entire passages from his own drafts and used them for the novel that propelled him to stardom. In the lawsuit, Chase claims to have evidence that Ellis accessed his computer and cell phone to download the document for his novel. Ellis, seeing himself ostracized by the elite and fearing the fall of his reputation, denies the accusations and counterattacks by claiming to have used Chase's devices only to spy on her husband's conversations with his mistress. Who is telling the truth? Interspersing scenes about Ellis and Chase's relationship, the reasons that led to their breakup, and her empty new life, which she fills with excess, the novel explores jealousy, competitiveness when intertwined with love, the space queer authors are allowed to occupy in the literary world, and the lengths we're willing to go to achieve success.