THE ROLE by Ben Panulo Junior

Maya Adisa has spent years learning how to become the person other people want to cast.
Then she is offered the role of a lifetime.
The production is prestigious. The money is real. The opportunity could change her career. But the role comes with an unusual condition: Maya must follow a behavioral framework designed specifically around her.
At first, she assumes it is simply an extreme form of character preparation.
Then the coincidences begin.
Conversations seem anticipated. Personal choices produce strangely predictable consequences. People around the production appear to know things they should not know. And Maya begins to suspect that the role was not written for the character she is playing.
It was written for her.
As professional ambition collides with growing suspicion, Maya is forced into a terrifying question: how much of a person's identity can be engineered before the performance stops being a performance?
THE ROLE is a psychological science-fiction thriller about identity, free will, behavioral conditioning, performance, and the hidden systems that shape human choice.