Melody Moore thought she could hide from her past in a frozen Chicago apartment, burying her trauma under a mountain of unread books and cynical reviews, but some stories refuse to stay dead. When a mysterious galley titled The Spoiler lands on her doorstep, Melody discovers with a cold knot of dread that it isn't just a novel-it's a real-time script of her life, written by the monster who destroyed her family ten years ago. Now, the walls are closing in, the ceiling hides a killer made of mud and memories, and the only way out is through a terrifying time loop where the ink is still wet. To survive, Melody must descend into a nightmarish library and team up with a scar-tissue version of herself to find the one thing her stepfather couldn't destroy: her mother's original draft. Because in this twisting, meta-fictional hellscape, the only way to change the ending is to grab a pen and rewrite the inciting incident in your own blood. Sometimes, you have to kill the author just to save the story.