Written with the same sparse edge of a classic crime novel, Copy Boy by Shelley Blanton-Stroud follows Jane, a Midwestern woman who flees to Depression-era San Francisco where she defies the odds to become a newspaper copy boy. Things are going great until her father lands on the paper's front page with his arm around a woman who was beaten to death. Now Jane's new life is at risk, but she's willing to do anything to protect her carefully crafted identity.