Overview

• Witherspoon kicked off the book tour in Los Angeles during Hello Sunshine’s third annual Shine Away summit on the Universal Studios lot.
• She and bestselling novelist Harlan Coben said they co-wrote the novel exclusively as a two-person team to keep the project from feeling gimmicky.
• The plot follows Maggie McCabe, an Army reconstructive surgeon drawn into private medicine and Russian billionaire circles, with A.I. elements teased.
• Witherspoon said she developed the concept for roughly two and a half years before inviting Coben to help shape it into a novel.
• Citing her parents’ medical and military backgrounds, she described the book as a love letter to them and said she will measure success by inspiring more girls to become surgeons.