Girls on Fire

Shortly after Halloween 1991, the local high-school basketball star is found in the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, 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.In the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed, Cobain-worshipping bad influence. Lacey forges a fast, intimate bond with the impressionable Dex, making Hannah over in her own image?and unleashing a fierce defiance with unexpected and harrowing consequences.