When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole

An instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

"If Rear Window and Get Out got married and had a baby that was a book, it would indeed be When No One Is Watching, which takes place in contemporary Brooklyn and combines a page-turning thriller with shrewd social commentary on race, gentrification and greed."

   -- Seattle Times

Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block--her neighbor Theo.

But Sydney and Theo's deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.

When does coincidence become conspiracy? Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? Can Sydney and Theo trust each other--or themselves--long enough to find out before they too disappear?

Alyssa Cole is a multi-award-winning historical, contemporary, and science fiction romance author. A Princess in Theory, her romantic comedy, was named a New York Times notable book for 2018. An Extraordinary Union, a Civil War-set espionage romance, was named the RUSA Best Romance for 2018 by the American Library Association and the RT Novel Reviews Reviewer's Choice Award Book of the Year by RT Book Reviews. Her work has appeared in sites such as Bustle, Shondaland, The Toast, Vulture, and others, and her works have been praised by the New York Times, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Jezebel, Vulture, Book Riot, Entertainment Weekly, and other media.