Rainbow Black

<p><strong>I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years and <em>Rainbow Black</em> is going to set so many new hearts aflame--murder intrigue queer love dark humor AND satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club world!</strong><strong>--Emma Straub New York Times bestselling author of <em>This Time Tomorrow</em></strong></p><p><strong>For readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant deliriously entertaining novel from the acclaimed author of <em>Honor Girl</em>. <em>Rainbow Black</em> is part murder mystery part gay international fugitive love story</strong>--<strong>set against the '90s Satanic Panic and spanning 20 years in the life of a young woman pulled into its undertow.</strong></p><p>Lacey Bond is a 13-year-old girl in New Hampshire growing up in the tranquility of her hippie parents' rural daycare center. </p><p> Then the Satanic Panic hits. It's the summer of 1990 when Lacey 's parents are handcuffed flung into the county jail and faced with a torrent of jaw-dropping accusations as part of a mass hysteria sweeping the nation. When a horrific murder brings Lacey to the breaking point she makes a ruthless choice that will haunt her for decades.</p><p> As an adult Lacey mimes a normal life as the law clerk of an illustrious judge. She has a beautiful girlfriend a measure of security and the world has mostly forgotten about her. But after a tiny misstep spirals into an uncontrolled legal disaster the hysteria threatens to begin all over again.</p><p> <em>Rainbow Black</em> is an addictive searing high-octane triumph an imaginative tour de force about one woman's tireless desire to be free.</p>