A story written at gunpoint. A life edited by someone else’s hand.
Robert Andrew Michaels, bestselling author under the pen name R. A. Michaels, thought he’d finally secured peace on his secluded five acres of pines. A new gate. A new security system. A fortress where words were the only things that could reach him.
Until the first shot shattered the glass.
Now Robert is a prisoner inside his own home, held captive by Vince Robertson—a shadow from the digital dark who has hacked his security, jammed his phone, and laced his life with explosives. Vince’s demand is simple and Write the story I want… a chapter a day. Publish it for the world to see.
As Robert bleeds his sanity onto the page, his family, friends, and readers believe they’re witnessing his most daring experiment “Ride Along with the Author.” But the line between fiction and reality is razor-thin—and every word could be his last.
The Final Draft is a taut psychological thriller about obsession, control, and the dangerous intimacy between writer and reader.