Lucky Girl can be an unflinching exploration of beauty, self-worth, and sexual assault, from the author from the acclaimed Tease.

Rosie is a lovely girl-and it certainly is been enough. Kids crush on her, males stare at her, ladies (begrudgingly) admire her. She’s lucky and she knows it. But it’s the start of a fresh school yr and she starts to understand that she really wants to be more. Namely, she’s determined to be easier to her closest friend, Maddie, who’s just back again from a summertime program abroad having totally about Lucky Lady blossomed into her very own appears. Rosie isn’t thrilled when Maddie connects having a soccer participant who Rosie was hooking up with-but if it creates her friend content, she’s prepared to get over it. Plus, somebody a lot more interesting has moved to town: Alex, who became semifamous after he halted a classmate from carrying out a shooting rampage at his outdated senior high school. Rosie is normally drawn to Alex in a way she’s hardly ever experienced before-and she is surprised to learn that, unlike almost every other guy, he seems to see even more to her than her beauty.

Then at a celebration one night, amid a devastating surprise, something happens that tears apart Rosie’s life and sets her on a journey of self-discovery that forces her to face uncomfortable truths on the subject of reputation, identity, and what this means to be a true friend.