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This is my current WIP. This thriller is about A vigilante serial killer who preys on cheating husbands starts an online affair; she's unnerved to discover her new target knows her darkest secrets, pushing her into a dangerous game to uncover. The truth may shatter the lives of everyone she loves.

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The Layover

By day, El is the quintessential suburban mom and loving wife to Mike, juggling her two children and the demands of her flight attendant job. By night, she's a meticulously precise vigilante, transforming into a glamorous, femme fatale who lures cheating men through a "Married Cheaters" website and brutally ends their lives. She's a phantom, never striking in the same city twice, her kill kits strategically pre-planted across the country. Her motive is deeply personal: she's avenging her sister, whose life was ruined by a married high school English teacher who refused to acknowledge their affair.

El’s carefully constructed double life begins to unravel when Mike accepts a new client, who causes El to be uncomfortable, and El doesn’t know why. She is also propositioned by an enigmatic man online, who seems to know unsettling details about her past—a childhood neighborhood, a specific high school. Her "spidey senses" scream that something is amiss. This man is too elusive, too well-informed. As she digs for answers, El finds a disturbing lack of information about him, only confirming her unease.

The stakes escalate when her flight schedule is unexpectedly changed, disrupting a planned hit. The mysterious client drops another chilling hint, pushing El to the brink of panic. Could he be connected to her past? Is he aware of her dark secret? To protect her perfect family from discovering the monster she's become, El realizes she must eliminate him, but not before understanding who he is, and how much he knows.

The cat-and-mouse game culminates in a tense confrontation. El finally comes face-to-face with her nemesis, only to uncover a devastating truth: he's the brother of the very first man she killed, the one she believed drove her sister to attempt suicide. Even more shocking, she learns that her initial victim was, in fact, innocent. This revelation shatters her carefully constructed moral code, forcing her to grapple with the horrifying realization that her revenge was born from a tragic mistake.

In the aftermath, El must make an impossible choice: protect her carefully crafted facade at all costs, even if it means framing an innocent man, or sacrifice herself to preserve her family's perception of her. The path she chooses will determine if she remains the perfect wife and mother in her family's eyes, and end her reign as a master assassin or her own death. But the worst outcome would be living with her mistake in prison.

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