Author: LS Hawker

Publisher: Vanishing PointPress

ISBN: 978-1-890391-10-2

LS Hawker, author of The Throwaways, hails from near Denver Colorado where she enjoys her family, music, and writing. (2019, p.373) She earned her B.S. in journalism from the University of Kansas. LS has worked as a radio personality/host, grammar podcaster for website designers, trade magazine editor, and fitness video editor prior to following her passion for writing. She wrote her first novel at the age of fourteen.  Her books have won awards and been on the USA Today bestseller lists. To learn more about this impressive woman please log on to her website.

George is the main character of this novel that thrills you with its interesting and well composed twists and turns. George grew up in a small town in Kansas. He and his three buddies: Travis aka G-Ho, Bill, and Curt find themselves mixed up in a college sorority and fraternity based drug ring all because George hooked up with a gal named Stacia when he should have been meeting his ex-girlfriend to talk about getting back together.

George has floundered in the shadows of his now dead twin brothers since he was thirteen. He just found out he was accepted into Law School and is excited to share this news with his recent ex in hopes that she may change her mind about breaking things off with him. He seems to believe this change in status might make her see him through a new lens. He stops off at the local quick stop to pick up some beer and is intercepted by a lovely sorority gal by the name of Stacia who invites him out for a night of pleasure if he will allow her to drop by her sorority first. George cannot resist her voluminous charms and off they go. She gets him to drink something called absinthe and he passes out for the next hour or so. When he wakes up his mind is foggy, she is gone, and he is covered in blood. The sorority house has been blown up and the girls inside are believed to be dead. In his backseat are many incriminating instruments that he is now tasked with doing something with.  Where can he go? What will he do?

As George endeavors to evade the police and determine what actually happened that fateful night he finds his way back to his small hometown of Niobe, Kansas and his close-knit group of high school buddies whom he has not spoken to at any length for a couple of years. George stashes his car and the incriminating evidence in the garage of his uncle’s home before heading out to find his peeps in the classic corvette his dead brothers left to him. Will he find the truth? Will he go to jail? Will his friends help or hinder that process?

I found this to be a regular page turner. I enjoyed it and believe you will too!