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When the polar ice caps melted, America's East Coast became an underwater graveyard—except for New York City, where a million people make their home amongst the skyscrapers poking through the ocean waves. A million people who like to live by their own rules—including Simone Pierce, one of the best private investigators in the city.

It starts out as a routine surveillance job: cheating husband, attractive blonde. But when the husband turns up with a bullet in him, the cops like Simone for the murder. If she can find the blonde, she'll clear her name, but instead she stumbles onto a strange network of power brokers and art collectors, all looking for a treasure that can't possibly exist. As she struggles to find the murderer, Simone is only sure of one thing: she can't trust anybody, not even herself, because the city she grew up in might have more secrets than even she knows.

Lev AC Rosen is the author of the critically acclaimed All Men of Genius. His middle grade novel, Woundabout, will be published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers in Summer 2015. He received his BA from Oberlin College and his MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Lev is originally from lower Manhattan, and now lives in even lower Manhattan, right at the edge of the water, with his husband and a very small cat. You can find him online at LevACRosen.com.