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Also by Deborah Goodrich Royce:

Best Boy, February 2026
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Reef Road, January 2023
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
Ruby Falls, April 2022
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Ruby Falls, May 2021
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Finding Mrs. Ford, July 2019
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BEST BOY
By: Deborah Goodrich Royce

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Post Hill Press
February 2026
On Sale: February 24, 2026
ISBN: B0G3DXYCFC
EAN: 9798895653340
Kindle: B0G3DXYCFC
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
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Thriller Domestic

A gripping psychological thriller, Best Boy teeters on the knife-edge of memory and identity when the arrival of a shocking letter threatens the carefully constructed life of a woman desperate to outrun her past.

Viveca Stevenson has it all: a handsome and successful husband, an adorable ten-year-old son, and a coastal dream house in Greenwich, Connecticut. She has a solid group of girlfriends and is content with the afterglow of the film career she’s left behind. But when a threatening letter arrives—from a man she does not remember—it cracks open a part of her past she thought was buried for good.

A terrifying chain of events is set in motion, forcing Viveca to confront what happened on a shattering Halloween night in high school when she had a different name, a different face, a different voice. Who is the man contacting her now and was he really the best boy on her most famous film, Misty? Why can’t she remember him—or that night?

A taut psychological thriller, Best Boy explores identity, memory, and the dangerous power of forgetting.