Girls on Fire

<p>On Halloween 1991 a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek Pennsylvania and disappears. Three days later he's found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand--a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community already unnerved by growing rumors of Satanic worship in the region.</p><p>In the wake of this incident bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain a dark-eyed Cobain-worshiping bad influence in lip gloss and Doc Martens. The charismatic seductive Lacey forges a fast intimate bond with the impressionable Dex making her over in her own image and unleashing a fierce defiance that neither girl expected. But as Lacey gradually lures Dex away from her safe life into a feverish spiral of obsession rebellion and ever greater risk an unwelcome figure appears on the horizon--and Lacey's secret history collides with Dex's worst nightmare.</p><p>By turns a shocking story of love and violence and an addictive portrait of the intoxication of female friendship set against the unsettled backdrop of a town gripped by moral panic <em>Girls on Fire</em> is an unflinching and unforgettable snapshot of girlhood: girls lost and found girls strong and weak girls who burn bright and brighter--and some who flicker away.</p>