The Spectacular

From the New York Times Bestselling Author of The Magnolia Palace: A thrilling story about love,sacrificeand the pursuit of dreamsset amidst the glamour and glitz of Radio City Music Hall in its mid-century heyday. New York City1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected theyΓÇÖd have together: a quiet house in the suburbsMarion staying home to raise their future children. But insteadMarion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City RockettesΓÇöthe glamorous precision-dancing troupeΓÇöshe jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable future for the dazzling life of a performer. Meanwhilethe city is reeling from a string of bombings orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the ΓÇ£Big Apple BomberΓÇ¥ who has been terrorizing the citizens of New York for sixteen years by planting bombs in popularcrowded spaces. With the public in an uproar over the lack of any real leads after a yearslong manhuntthe police turn in desperation to Peter Griggsa young doctor at a local mental hospital who espouses a radical new technique: psychological profiling. As both Marion and Peter find themselves unexpectedly pulled in to the police search for the bomberMarion realizes that as much as sheΓÇÖs been training herself to blend inΓÇöperforming in perfect unison with all the other identical RockettesΓÇöif she hopes to catch the bombersheΓÇÖll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing soshe may be forced to sacrifice everything sheΓÇÖs worked foras well as the people she loves the most.