A disgraced Hollywood publicist takes a high-risk PR job in Turkey, only to be swept into a billion-dollar arms deal, a hostage crisis, and a moral reckoning that could cost her everything in a race to expose the truth. 

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The Accidental Arms Broker

By Monica Matulich & Selene Castrovilla

She loses everything in Hollywood. Now she’s in a war zone with a billion-dollar secret.

Maya Bagdanovich is a top-tier Hollywood publicist—until a scandal shatters her career, ends her engagement, and leaves her with nothing but a designer wardrobe and a bruised ego.

Desperate for a second act, Maya accepts a high-paying PR job in Turkey. But the assignment is not what it seems. She’s hired to promote a government-backed dam project that will flood ancient ruins and force thousands of Kurds from their homes. Sent to Washington to raise support, Maya uses her streetwise instincts to land a major sponsor—and accidentally brokers a billion-dollar arms deal.

As she races across war-torn Anatolia with a volatile film crew, Maya’s conscience starts to crack. Rebels kidnap her team. A brooding Turkish director challenges her beliefs. And the deeper she gets, the harder it becomes to ignore the human cost of her success.

With a forged passport in one hand and a half-finished documentary in the other, Maya must decide: protect her future—or risk everything to tell the truth.

THE ACCIDENTIAL ARMS BROKER