Obliged

Michael Voitek

When her boyfriend is lured to Hollywood by a shadowy film company, a woman follows—only to find herself unraveling in a world where the line between family, fiction, and control begins to blur.

After her boyfriend receives a mysterious letter from a prestigious but secretive Hollywood film company, a recently fired woman uproots her life to follow him to Los Angeles. At first, everything feels like a dream—he's finally breaking into the industry, and they’re welcomed into a grand estate run by the studio’s enigmatic founder and her unnervingly close-knit “family.” But as the woman settles in, she begins to sense something is deeply wrong. Boundaries blur, relationships shift, and a creeping dread takes hold as she uncovers unsettling secrets about the people around her—and the disturbing lengths they’ll go to keep their version of a perfect life intact. What begins as a fresh start spirals into a psychological nightmare where nothing, not even love, is what it seems.

Thriller, Mystery/Suspense

100 pages