Gary Baum, with August Brown, discusses & signs In Pursuit of Beauty

For Dr. Roya Delshad, the answers are anything and everything. A sought-after Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, Roya is also the highest example of her craft. She's had every inch of her own body sculpted, one procedure at a time. All to escape a painful and lonely past.

But when Roya gives the gift of beauty to those who can't afford the cost, the media labels her "The Robin Hood of Roxbury Drive," and she soon finds herself pleading her case from inside a Pr*son cell.

Hoping to resurrect her reputation and obscure a trail of unhappy clients, Roya tells her story with the help of the blithely handsome Wes Easton, a journalist and failed screenwriter who agrees to ghostwrite her memoir. In a twistingly tense pas de deux, Wes struggles to tell fact from fiction, and Roya seeks to explode his notions about aspiration and desire, sending their collaboration off the rails.

A bold, stylish, and provocative thriller about surfaces and their hidden depths, In Pursuit of Beauty explores what it means to become exactly who you once yearned to be.

Gary Baum is an award-winning investigative journalist at The Hollywood Reporter. He has twice been named Journalist of the Year by the Los Angeles Press Club. His work was the basis for Peacock's Emmy-nominated series Angelyne, which featured a fictionalized Baum portrayed by Alex Karpovsky. In Pursuit of Beauty is his first novel.

August Brown covers music and culture for the Los Angeles Times, where he has won top prizes from the Los Angeles Press Club and National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards for his investigative and feature work.

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