Brutes

In Falls Landing, Florida-a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers-something sinister lurks in the deep. A gangof thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edgeever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and thecruel cost of a ticket out. What they uncover will continue to haunt them forthe rest of their lives.

Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate capturesthe violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the 'we' of young friendship, and the momentit is broken forever.