EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather.
Now he's looking for some tenderness--tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls.
Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again.
Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness--tenderness she finds in Eric.
Will Lori and Eric be each other's salvation or destruction? Cormier is in top form in this chilling portrait of a serial murderer.
Gripping.
--School Library Journal, Starred An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults.
