Sofie Wilde’s bestselling fantasy romance series has been breaking bestseller records and readers hearts for years. Declining all film and TV adaptation offers until the series end, Sofie is primed to become a worldwide phenomenon as the tenth and final book is set to debut after the annual romance readers convention takes place in Chicago next week. As buzz continues to build toward the book’s release, Sofie is asked to headline the event for the first time. It’s a career milestone. One she won’t let anyone take from her, especially “the next Sofie Wilde.”   That’s what they’re calling her—Hartley West, the self-published debut author who writes in the style of Sofie Wilde. Except she doesn’t actually “write” anything. After Hartley admits to having used AI to create her novel, plugging in Sofie’s name as the prompt, Sofie’s ready to watch Hartley be skewered on social media. Except in t