Blind date a book - The real deal

It's a book! This is an edited collection of stories from multiple authors including an amazing friend of CLHOF who will be signing and writing the personal note. HINTS: Edited collection of stories. Dark and gritty, with a complicated and enticing main character. PAIRS WELL WITH: An Old Fashioned. A long walk. THE CONCEPT of blind date with a book is to find something new. Let CLHOF fix you up! No spoilers just a few hints. It's the button that the Chicago Department of Tourism doesn't want you to press. Do it anyway. BID!