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Trapped in an isolated Presidential Suite over Key West, she faces mounting physical and emotional consequences as messages from other top producers expose cracks in her performance. When a “Go Live” decision collides with her fear and guilt, the resort setting becomes a pressure chamber where truth, rivalry, and moral unraveling threaten her ability to keep selling the future she wants.","A Cultofa Different  \nKind  \nKate Shelton  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThis book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author ’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, places, names, or persons, is entirely coincidental.  \nText copyright © 2026 by Kate Shelton  \nAll rights reserved. For information regarding reproduction in total or in part, [contact Rising Action Publishing Co. at](contact Rising Action Publishing Co. at) [http://www.risingactionpublishingco.com](http://www.risingactionpublishingco.com)[ ](http://www.risingactionpublishingco.com)Cover Illustration © Kaitlin Thatcher  \nDistributed by Simon & Schuster ISBN: 978-1-998672-42-4  \nEbook: 978-1-998672-43-1 FIC031100-Thrillers/Domestic FIC030000-Thrillers/Suspense  \n\\#ACultOfADifferentKind  \nFollow Rising Action on our socials! Twitter: @RAPubCollective  \nInstagram: @risingactionpublishingco  \nTiktok: @risingactionpublishingco  \nTo all the women who have felt the need to become less to be more:  \nYou weren’t born to be small. Take up space. Embrace your body. Love yourself, and for God’s sake, please don’tjoin a multi-level marketing company like SHL.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTo all the women who have felt the need to become less to be more: You weren’t born to be small. Take up space. Embrace your body. Love yourself, and for God’s sake, please don’t join a multi-level marketing  \ncompany like SHL.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nChapter 1  \nThen: Beylynn  \nL ying to viewers on the screen was as natural as breathing. I never  \nthought of it that way, though. I never thought about filling my lungs with oxygen, and I never considered telling the whole truth to my fans.  \nI took a deep breath and turned on the camera, ready to sell a version of the future I wanted—a version of the life I deserved. My lies went in and out, alongside my breath. This bending of the truth, color-correcting my life, came easily to me. I had been doing it for so long.  \nUntil I couldn’t anymore.  \nI no longer wanted to breathe, and no part of me wanted to keep lying to all those sweet women on the other side of my screen. My hands shook. My mind refused to spin the web of lies another time. The natural ability to feed my lungs and my bank account was gone.  \nMy thumb hovered over the screen. The fearful part of my brain urged me to press the “Go Live” button. The rest of my gray matter told me to run. My heart sped up. It seemed to be saying, not again. I had to lie one more time. It was now or never, and I wasn’t going to let this opportunity slip  \nthrough my fingers. They’d taught me all about the art of closing a sale, and now it was time to close the biggest deal of my life.  \nI looked around the room. All the lies I’d told again and again felt like they were stacked on top of one another, closing in on me. Those mountains of lies got me here … The Off-Shores Oasis. Rated as one of the most highly rated resorts in the country, it lived up to its reputation. My insidious lies landed me in the Presidential Suite—an overwater tiki hut, straddling the turquoise waters of Key West.  \nI lay back on the bed and felt the soft pillows encircle my head. 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