WHERE ARE YOU, ECHO BLUE?

A smart, juicy, and page-turning adult debut about celebrity, fandom, and the price of ambition following a journalist's obsessive search for a missing Hollywood starlet.

When Echo Blue, the most famous child star of the nineties, disappears on the eve of the millennium, the theories instantly start swirling: She's back in rehab after a wild New Year's Eve; she's killed herself because of a bad romance; it's just a publicity stunt for attention... But Goldie Klein, a young, ambitious journalist, who also happens to be Echo's biggest fan, knows there must be more to the story. Why, on the eve of her big comeback, would Echo just go missing without a trace?

After a year of covering dreary local stories for Manhattan Eye, Goldie is sure this will be her big break. Who better to find Echo Blue, and tell her story the right way, than her? And so, Goldie heads to L.A. to begin a wild search that takes her deep into Echo's complicated life - her emancipation from her also actor parents, including the legendary former Hollywood golden boy Jamie Blue; her mysterious friend break-up with co-star Belinda Summers; and her tumultuous relationship with bad boy Paul Reed. Meanwhile, we also hear this story from Echo's voice, a story of a young woman who was chewed up and spit out by the industry as so many are, and who may have had to pay the ultimate price.

As these young women's poignant parallel stories unfold, WHERE ARE YOU, ECHO BLUE? interrogates how our culture treats celebrities, the thin line between admiration and obsession, and the toxicity of Hollywood, all while we race to find out what did become of Echo Blue.

Hayley Krischer is the author of two young adult novels, Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf and The Falling Girls. She is also an award-winning journalist who has written for the The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Marie Claire, Elle, and more.