Once upon a time in Hollywood … there was a gifted mystery woman who introduced movie stories.

The StoryTeller she was called. A highly talented woman, she recited enchanting tales. Adventures and mysteries, comedies, and romances.

Many of her stories became classics. More than a thousand films in all. Yet she was virtually unknown.

Producers called her Scheherazade; few knew her real name. Studio records only identified her as “StoryTeller” to keep competitors from hiring her away. And so, from Silents to Talkies to the Golden Age of Hollywood, she has been kept in the shadows.

Now in one novel inspired by her life story, screenwriter Marv Gold portrays a sensitive young woman by day, and a seductive beauty in her dreamworld. As she becomes swept up in studio affairs and fiascoes, she faces a swirl of passions, scandals, and heartaches, until at last she is unveiled.