by Naomi Rand

It’s May of ’68 and twenty-two-year-old Freddie Riley is cycling home from her job as a bike messenger, unaware that her life as she knows it, is about to be upended. She walks into the apartment to find a stranger, lying dead, and her foster mother, Yvette, bleeding out on the floor. When Yvette whispers a cryptic message to her, it sets her, and her best friend/ crush Celia on a course that will lead them from the gritty old Times Square to the glamorous Cary Grant suite at the Warwick. It will take all of Freddie's considerable street-smarts and ingenuity to keep them one step ahead of their relentless pursuers so that they can solve the mystery before they both end up dead.

Goodbye To Me is a queer centered, propulsively paced, twisty tale of a city long-gone. It portrays New York City at its roughest, back before it turned into the safe, glittering metropolis it is today. And Freddie Riley is one of those increasingly rare things, a native New Yorker, who, like the city that never sleeps, she's got surprises up her sleeve. This feisty heroine has a unique voice and a kickass attitude. In a world where men take, and women, give, Freddie Riley firmly draws the line. By doing that, and standing up for herself, she upends the status quo. And, as a dividend, she finds out who she is, not just by birth, but at her core.