"Cleo Sherwood disappeared eight months ago. Aside from her parents and the two sons she left behind, no one seems to have noticed. It isn't hard to understand why; it's 1966 and neither the police, the public nor the papers care much when Negro women go missing.
Maddie Schwartz - recently separated from her husband, working her first job as an assistant at the 'Baltimore Sun' - wants one thing: a byline. When she hears about an unidentified body that's been pulled from a fountain in one of the city's parks, Maddie thinks she is about to uncover a story that will make her name. What she can't imagine is how much trouble she will cause by chasing a story that no one wants her to tell." -- Back cover