Release Date: July 7, 2026
About The Book:
It’s May of ’68, New York City: 22-year-old Freddie Riley and her beloved hometown have much in common–they’re both ambitious, canny, and un-apologetically in-your-face. Freddie didn’t grow up with parents–she was raised by her foster mother Yvette, whose tough-love attitude has taught Freddie street-smarts and perseverance. Living amidst the grit of Hell’s Kitchen suits Freddie just fine, but nothing can prepare her for the shock of coming home to discover a dead man in her living room and a cryptic message about her birth from a fatally wounded Yvette.
Freddie suddenly finds herself in danger with her whole sense of self thrown into question. She begins to uncover dark secrets kept by her birth family. If she wants to find out the twisted truth of her past, she’ll have to use all her considerable street-smarts to stay one step ahead of her relentless pursuers and confront some demons of her own.
With her childhood best friend/emerging crush Celia, Freddie takes off across the city–boosting disguises from film sets, careening through the underbrush in dangerous Central Park, hiding out in both a houseboat on the Hudson and the Cary Grant suite at the very top of the Warwick, and calling in favors from a large circle of friends in high and low places. But as they dig deeper, Freddie realizes the consequences of uncovering her past may make her future even more uncertain.
About The Author:
Naomi Rand is the author of the Emma Price mysteries, The One That Got Away, Stealing For A Living, and It’s Raining Men (Harper Collins) and the novel, Surviving Amelia (Bink Books). Her new book, Goodbye to Me is forthcoming from Bink in July 2026. She also has stories in three great collections, Brutal and Strange: Stories Inspired by the Songs of Elvis Costello (Down and Out Press), Crime Plus Music (Three Rooms Press) and Hard Boiled Brooklyn (Bleak House Books). Her fiction and literary criticism have appeared in numerous publications including The Flexible Persona, Other Voices, Melus, Cutbank, The Florida Review, The Spirit That Moves Us Press, Invisible City, and The North Dakota Quarterly. Her personal essays have appeared in The Huffington Post and Ravishly, and she’s written a book review column, numerous articles for national publications and, once, long ago, a pregnancy guide. She lives in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn with her husband, David. When she’s not writing, swimming, or walking, she’s planning her next great meal.
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