Best Boy

By Deborah Goodrich Royce

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FCD9K733
• ISBN13: 9798895653340
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Post Hill Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.