IT'S OSCARS DAY. TWENTYSOMETHING Instagram influencer Kennedy Thorne recently had a small role in an Academy Award-nominated indie film. Oscars day begins quietly-with a meeting with up-and-coming fashion designer J-Sean Laurentius for one final dress fitting. But long before the after parties start, Kennedy's life will be changed forever. THE INFLUENCERS is a darkly comic modern literary thriller set in an LA that is at once timeless and simultaneously caught in yesterday's trends.