Fast Boys and Pretty Girls

From the acclaimed author of The Floating Girls and The Night the River Wept comes a gritty, slow-burn Southern mystery exposing the all-consuming power of first love and its impact on a family.

Following a semi-successful career as a teen model in New York City, Danielle Greer has moved back to the mountains of North Georgia and is living in her childhood home with her husband and four daughters. One stifling, lazy afternoon, the girls are exploring the ravine behind the house when they come across a body.

Danielle knows the body doesn’t belong to Benji Law, a local misfit who Danielle had an illicit relationship with as a teenager - him at sixteen, a high school dropout, her at eighteen, a successful model living too grownup a life. No, his body was found right away, after he was killed in a motorcycle accident on the road in front of her family’s house. Danielle has a good idea who the body might be, but she doesn’t know how it got there.

When local police officer Cady Benson is called in to investigate, Danielle’s world is turned upside down, and she’s thrust back into those dark, confusing days leading up to Benji’s death, battling the things she remembers with the things she can’t forget.