I’M WATCHING YOU.

“Moor’s poetic, stream-of-consciousness prose drops readers directly into the mind…” — Kirkus Reviews

In 2001, the line between performance and survival is razor-thin. Operating under the alias Dusty Rose, Charmay is an actress, singer, and part-time private investigator trying to mask the aftermath of trauma and escalating addiction. When she takes a routine surveillance assignment to trail a New York director to a small film festival in Germany, she expects a clean, fast sting.

Then the towers fall.

Grounded in Europe by the closed post-9/11 airspace, Charmay is pulled into London and into the volatile orbit of Zaz, a charismatic horror filmmaker. When the PI firm suspects Zaz of covert international links, they push her deeper into his world to keep watching. But the surveillance cuts both ways. Zaz steals her laptop, unearthing the raw fragments of her past, and announces a new project: a highly salable sci-fi film. But once on set, he strips away the script—weaponizing the details of her real life and trauma to trap her inside a brutal, real-time performance.

As production moves across remote locations in Tunisia, France, and Greece, the cameras roll unceasingly. In a paranoid landscape where images double as evidence and every frame is a weapon, the blur between rehearsal and reality becomes a war for her soul. Trapped between a deepening chemical spiral in New York and Zaz’s psychological control in Europe, she must strip away every mask—including the bottle—before the final act finishes what her husband’s sudden death started.

This is for the lonely ones—you are at the heart of the truth.