The Mentor

by Angela Douglas

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Pub Date Sep 15 2026 | Archive Date Aug 10 2026

EOB Publishing

General Fiction (Adult) | Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

The book was fiction. The pain was real. The consequences are deadly.

Professor Karla Dobbs has everything: literary acclaim, a bestselling novel, and a film adaptation on the horizon. Until a former student accuses her of plagiarism.

Natalie Silva claims that the novel in question is based on a real tragedy and insists that the film be stopped, or there will be consequences. Certain that she has done nothing wrong, Karla dismisses her. At first.

But as the world slips into lockdown, the truth begins to unravel, and the people behind the real story emerge demanding answers. Threats and public scrutiny follow. And then come the submissions.

Through a desperate attempt to stay afloat, her online mentorship program, Karla receives work from an anonymous writer known only as The Protegé. Each excerpt is disturbingly personal. Intimate and predictive, with chilling precision.

Someone is watching her.

Someone is writing her.

And as people around her begin to die, Karla realizes the most dangerous story she’s never told… may be her own.

When you steal someone else’s trauma, it becomes yours.

A gripping psychological suspense novel about literary ambition, stolen trauma, obsession, and revenge that explores the stories we tell, the secrets we keep, and the price of turning someone else's tragedy into your own success.

The book was fiction. The pain was real. The consequences are deadly.

Professor Karla Dobbs has everything: literary acclaim, a bestselling novel, and a film adaptation on the horizon. Until a former...

A Note From the Publisher

Content Warnings: Traumatic event involving child death, other murders and deaths, thoughts of suicide, grief, trauma and other loss, dog injury (not death), substance abuse, cursing, the pandemic, body shaming, and homophobia.

Content Warnings: Traumatic event involving child death, other murders and deaths, thoughts of suicide, grief, trauma and other loss, dog injury (not death), substance abuse, cursing, the pandemic...

Advance Praise

"A twisted thriller you can sink your teeth into, the Mentor is the perfect ‘unputdownable’ book that keeps you flipping the pages to find out more!" - Steena Holmes, Bestselling Author of She Took My Baby

"High-stakes suspense meets revenge thriller in Angela Douglas’s The Mentor, which follows an author whose bestselling novel is rooted in a devastating personal trauma. The problem? That trauma is not her own—and now that the book is blowing up, someone is out for blood. Led by a nuanced protagonist and set against the backdrop of the publishing world, this terror-filled tale is perfect for fans of Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot and David Bell’s Kill All Your Darlings. The Mentor had me playing 'one more chapter’ half the night. A stunner.” — Tessa Wegert, Author of In the Bones and The River Runs Black

"In The Mentor, Angela Douglas has delved into the dark world of literary plagiarism and crafted a gripping thriller about every writer's worst nightmare. Fast-paced and addictive!" — Sheena Kamal, Author of The Lost Ones