Hello, Juliet

By: Samantha M. Bailey

Narrated by: Kira Fixx

In a dark thriller from USA Today bestselling author Samantha M. Bailey, a TV reunion brings costars back for the drama and betrayals their viewers once craved—and this time, the stakes are deadly.

Ivy Westcott fled LA as her acting career imploded. In a flash, she lost her first love and chosen family—her Hello, Juliet castmates. But she never discovered who turned her closest friends against her. Now the whole world knows her as #PoisonIvy.

A decade later, Ivy is horrified when a celebrity exposé thrusts the Hello, Juliet cast back into the limelight, dredging up the old scandals she hoped to escape. Desperate for a fresh start and some financial stability for her mother and manager, Ivy agrees to participate in a top-secret reunion episode.

Ivy’s poised for a comeback, but past betrayals become a present danger when she and the man who once broke her heart find their costar dead.

Determined to find justice and clear her name, Ivy must tear down the facades of cast and crew to uncover chilling secrets that have plagued the Hollywood set from day one. Or she could be the next to die.

©2025 by Samantha M. Bailey. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

“Who do you trust and where do you go when you can’t outrun your past? Hello, Juliet by Samantha M. Bailey is a wickedly unputdownable thriller teeming with secrets, suspense, and sly revelations. Bailey keeps the tension high and the pages turning in this searing exploration of the darker side of fame. Not to be missed!”—Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest and Everyone Is Watching

“Samantha M. Bailey once again crafts a deliciously suspenseful tale, giving us a peek behind the curtains of a hit television show and the ramifications success has on its cast. In Hello, Juliet, Bailey perfectly captures the hunger for fame and the desperate measures some will take to achieve it, while also delivering a story filled with twists and surprises. A top-notch, single-sitting read.”—Kimberly Belle, internationally bestselling author of The Paris Widow

“Samantha M. Bailey has done it again! With exquisitely thorny characters and an evocative setting, Hello, Juliet pulled me in from page one and didn’t let go. Bailey’s fourth effort showcases her talent for executing breathtaking twists and turns. The cherry on top is an ending I never saw coming.”—Stephanie Wrobel, USA Today bestselling author of The Hitchcock Hotel

Nearly perfect

HELLO, JULIA is as perfect a book that I’ve in recent memory. Part mystery, part coming of age and completely engaging I listened to the audiobook in one sitting.

Ivy, while a sympathetic narrator, was also quite flawed. She jumped to conclusions and was a poor communicator. The relationship between Ivy and her mother/manager Elizabeth was somewhat enmeshed causing her to lack many of the skills she should have had in her twenties and thirties.

Told in then/now, when Ivy landed a role in a teen sitcom at age 22 and ten years later when Ivy is invited to a reunion of that show, I liked nearly all of the multidimensional characters. I guessed the perp early on which in no way detracted from my enjoyment of HELLO, JULIA.

I need to read everything Samantha Bailey has ever written, stat.

Best listen of the year

Great story, character development, and plot twists. Overall best listen of the year so far. I’ll be looking for more from this author.

Amazing read!!!

This might be the best book I’ve read so far this year. I couldn’t stop listening and finished it in one day.

it was okay

it wasn't as good as I expected and of figured it out early, definitely not as big of twists as I was expecting and certain things damn near pissed me off.

So Dumb

I can't believe I actually finished this, considering the fact that I was completely bored after 5 chapters, but I kept going because the high rating made me think this would turn itself around and redeem itself somehow. Unfortunately, the more the plot unfolds, the more the book devolves into ludicrousness.

The first 3/4 of the book is just boring. Stuff happens, but it's so all over the place that instead of building tension, everything feels slack because the threads aren't really connected. Once the reveals start happening, it all just feels ridiculous. The big twist is completely unearned; this is one of those thrillers where the villain is the least plausible character so "youl'll never see it coming!" but cannot be plausibly justified by anything before or after the reveal. The killer's motivations make no sense, but hey, they don't have to because they're a psychopath!

Additionally, all the red herrings are due to ALL of the characters potentially being capable of murder since every single one of them acts unhinged at some point. I'm sorry, but that is just lazy writing.

The narrator was fine. I originally felt they were overacting, but now I think they were just trying to breathe SOME sort of life into the extremely boring writing.