I quickly became a fan of Blundell after reading her first novel for teens, What I Saw and How I Lied, which won the National Book Award for Youth. She really writes great noir novels for teens, which is pretty much unique from what I can tell. I love them and can't put them aside.

Readers are quickly introduced to 17-year-old Kit Corrigan. It's fall of 1950, and she has recently arrived in New York City with the hopes of making it big on Broadway. It is not like she has no background. She and her triplet sister (Muddie) and brother (Jamie) were very big when they were younger. They were the stars of the Providence, Rhode Island, stage as the Corrigan triplets.

Kit has just finished a run as a dancer for a bomb of a Broadway play, and she is looking for a new role. Little does she know it, but it is going to be the role she plays offstage that is going to define her future and that of everyone she cares about. In a way, she is rescued by her former-boyfriend Billy's father. The problem is that Nate has connections ... and it is to the New England mob.

he offers her an awesome apartment in downtown Manhattan and a chance to tryout at the Lido Room as a singer/dancer. In a way, that is every girl's dream since so many of the performers are scouted by Hollywood producers. All Nate wants is for her to reconsider getting back together with Billy and building the dreams they once shared for a life in New York. In part, Kit knows it is a bad idea, but how do you pass up a chance like that!

As even she knows, things quickly start to spiral out of control as Nates ties to the mafia and her own Irish-Catholic family in Providence come to a head. Nothing comes free, and it quickly becomes clear that strings are attached to this help.

Blundell does an amazing job of capturing the feel and tone of the period. I wouldn't have been surprised to see Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe passing by in a scene. She ably captures Providence and other parts of Rhode Island well, getting the geography correct. I can only assume that the same is true of New York and the celebrities from their who are highlighted.

The book is eerie and fun, keeping the reader on edge as family secrets from the past come out, affecting everything the characters are trying to build today. Are their any victims, heroes, or villains in this tale? Read the book, and you can decide!