You took the time to write out your bullshit story, and tried making it as believable as you could. I'll applaud you for writing the short story for everyone to read, but a piss poor attempt at the same old scam. You should probably forget this forum, we got nothing for you.
That's some points in my opinion, most scammers don't think how they should weave their lies when they want to scam people, definitely a piss poor attempt but an attempt nonetheless and to you OP, I got a question, what's the title of the ebook? Kind of curious in searching it online to see if there's some truth in all of this, it also would've helped your scam attempt if you've given us some proofs, Photoshop is an easy thing to do right? I'm sure that you could've come up with some doctored pictures to support that scam but there's only a limit to the effort that you put in this kind of thing after all.