City of Smoke and Sparks

She came to New York to disappear. He made her want to be seen.

New York City, 1920. Maria Decristoforo steps off a train at Grand Central Terminal with a cardboard suitcase, twenty-four dollars and change sewn into the lining of her coat, and a new name she invented somewhere between Lynn, Massachusetts and the Harlem River. She is eighteen years old. She is running from a factory floor, a family that failed her, and a secret she cannot say out loud. By the time her shoes hit the marble, Maria is gone. She is Diana Grant now, and Diana Grant does not flinch.

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