Based on a True Story. Chrissy Hart thought the right story would save her. A journalist once praised for her brilliance finds herself suddenly unmoored. Her job is gone. She is a single mother in a polished suburban world of wealth, marriage, and quiet social hierarchies she cannot enter. Around her, other women seem effortlessly chosen, protected, certain of their place. She feels like an error in the system. So she turns toward the one story that feels big enough to change everything. Across an ocean, a notorious serial killer begins writing to her from prison. Their correspondence deepens. He tells her she is special. That this is fate. That she will rise again. She begins to believe that through him she will write the book that makes her undeniable, that lifts her out of invisibility, that proves she was never worthless at all. What she cannot yet see is that she is not chasing a man, or even a book. She is chasing the right to exist without earning it. As fantasy and reality slowly collide, the myth she built to survive begins to crack. The failed book. The shrinking money. The social exile. The mirror she can no longer avoid. And beneath it all, an older wound waiting to be named. Part psychological memoir, part descent into delusion, part return to self, this is the story of a woman who believed love had to be won through extremity, brilliance, or suffering and what it cost her to finally discover it did not. For anyone who has ever tried to become extraordinary just to feel worthy of being loved, this is a reckoning.