Goodreads asked Marcy McCreary:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Marcy McCreary I spent every summer of my youth in the Catskills resort area. My dad was the Activities Director and nightclub emcee (and entertainer/singer) at The Hotel Brickman in South Fallsburg, NY. I knew I wanted to write a story in this setting, but the question became… what story/what era… A coming of age? A romance? A memoir? Then, in 2017, I came across an article about a woman (a coffee shop waitress at one of the hotels) who disappeared from the area in the mid-70s and was found forty years later in an Alzheimer’s facility (in Massachusetts) through the fluke of a social security number search by a detective. She was unable to tell the detective what had happened to her in the intervening years. That was my eureka moment. I was intrigued by the idea of fictionalizing this woman’s story—filling in the forty-year gap between disappearing and being found. Throw in a father-daughter detective team--some murder and mayhem--and I knew I had my story.

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