by Suzanne Kingsbury

After graduation from a New England prep school, Fletcher Greel, the judge's son, returns home and falls in love with Haley Banks, while his best friend, Riley, becomes enamored with a blues-singing black girl named Crystal, and as these four lives become connected by romance, passion, and the new-found freedoms of late adolescence, racial tensions and violence threaten to destroy them all forever. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.