By late August, the fierce heat of the summer had reached its peak, blanketing Riverport in a heavy, humid haze that felt almost solid. It was the fever pitch of the summer blockbuster season, that frantic window where the cinema industry squeezed every possible crown from the pockets of students and vacationing families before the autumn chill set in.
Ethan Gray’s latest side project—a series of high-energy promotional campaigns for the teen romance flick Tomorrow's You—had finally reached its conclusion just as the movie prepared to catch the tail end of the season.
Liam Ashford, the marketing lead at Evergreen Entertainment, proved to be a man of his word. Not only did he transfer the agreed-upon 50,000 crowns into Ethan’s bank card with satisfying promptness, but he also reached out
