Want to know what really goes on behind the scenes at a well-known international film festival, and what the Hollywood A-List, studio execs and publicists are really like? If you liked The Devil Wears Prada, you'll love this book, set in the high-octane world of a major USA film festival - and which 'lifts the lid' on the sheer blood, sweat and tears that makes it happen ... Vanessa Vere Houghton receives a call from a friend in California to come and look after the A-List stars and 300 VIP guests at one of the USA's biggest international film festivals. She is catapulted into the perceived glamorous world of film festivals and red carpets, but soon realizes that the entertainment industry is anything but. Vanessa juggles the demands of the stars' publicists, Hollywood studio executives and film directors while briefly dating a budding screenwriter called Rob - who turns out to be a major drug trafficker with links to Mexico's largest drug cartel. Soon she is the unwitting pawn in an incendiary FBI/DEA drugs cartel bust. But when a major Hollywood publicist Vanessa worked with is murdered in Beverly Hills in 'awards season' and Rob has to go into Witness Protection, she realizes that fantasy and reality have collided in titanic proportions.