Londoner Zoe Ann Weiss has spent the advance from her first failed thriller — about a woman being stalked by a virtual stranger — and is now working at a Venice florist shop to make ends meet while she dodges emails from her agent and struggles to write that second book in order to avoid repaying a $250,000 advance.

Now People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive, Zach is still humble enough to recognize Zoe and cop to his bad behavior in ghosting her.

Soon, Zoe’s breathing the rare air of L.A. dreamers — with their “designer jeans, stilettos and injectables” — and Zach’s familiar musk and earth scent, experienced up close during an after-party skinny dip and more at his Hollywood Hills home.

When aerial photos are leaked of the couple in Zach’s pool and a stalker takes aim at Zoe, re-creating creepy scenes from her first novel, her idea has a plot that presents both legal and romantic dilemmas.

References to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” Joan Didion’s “Play It as It Lays” and other classics lend literary resonance to Drysdale’s warped tale of fame and revenge that manages to deliver some real surprises as it answers the question posed by Zoe’s stalker: “R U willing to die for him?”