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The Starlet and the Spectre

The Starlet and the Spectre

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The Starlet and the Spectre is a novel in English; you can read chapters 1–4 free here on EditWrx Reads.

Your code

598680

Keeps your place in the official app

  1. 1Install the official app — it’s free on iPhone and Android.
  2. 2Open it and enter 598680 when asked for a code. The Starlet and the Spectre opens right where this site leaves off.

Story

The story

Hollywood knows her as the Ice Queen, a beautiful actress with a wooden stare and no talent to speak of. What no one suspects is that she was once Spectre, the top field operative of The Blade, a clandestine organization that guards the country from the shadows. Her record for a solo infiltration still stands unbroken.

When her agent pushes her onto a live-streamed celebrity survival show, a malfunctioning mechanical wolf hunts her through the jungle. A dozen drone cameras watch her snap a branch, sharpen it, and pin the machine to the forest floor. Her only explanation is that she grew up on a hog farm.

Then she hears a name from her past: Dylan Scott, the mysterious heir to the Sterling-Scott fortune, hosting a charity auction aboard his private jumbo jet, The Stratos. It cannot be a coincidence. Even if the odds are one in a billion, she has to see for herself.

Opening excerpt

I’m Hollywood’s resident Ice Queen, the beautiful statue who can’t act her way out of a paper bag. My agent, in a stroke of what she called “brand expansion genius,” shoved me onto a live-streamed celebrity survival show to, in her words, “boost my relatability.”

Nobody expected the show’s engineered crisis—a mechanical wolf meant to add a dash…

These are the opening lines of chapter 1. Keep reading →

Chapters

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All chapters
  1. Chapter 1~520 words
  2. Chapter 2~500 words
  3. Chapter 3~380 words
  4. Chapter 4~210 words
  5. Chapter 5In the app
  6. Chapter 6In the app
  7. Chapter 7In the app
  8. Chapter 8In the app
  9. Chapter 9In the app
  10. Chapter 10In the app
  11. Chapter 11In the app
  12. Chapter 12In the app
  13. Chapter 13In the app
  14. Chapter 14In the app
  15. Chapter 15In the app
  16. Chapter 16In the app
  17. More chapters in the official app →

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Questions

Can I read The Starlet and the Spectre for free?

Yes — the first 4 chapters of The Starlet and the Spectre are free to read right here on EditWrx Reads, no sign-up needed. The rest of the story continues in the official app.

How many chapters are free here?

Chapters 1–4. Your place is saved on this device as you go, so you can stop and pick it up later tonight.

What happens after chapter 4?

Chapter 5 onward lives in the official app. Install it, enter the code 598680, and the story opens where this site leaves off.

What's The Starlet and the Spectre about?

Hollywood knows her as the Ice Queen, a beautiful actress with a wooden stare and no talent to speak of. What no one suspects is that she was once Spectre, the top field operative of The Blade, a clandestine organization that guards the country from the shadows. Her record for a solo infiltration still stands unbroken.

EditWrx Reads carries only the sample chapters and story details the publisher has cleared for preview. To read the whole book, use the official app.