White Lines

**At the heart of New York City's vibrant nightlife scene, a young teenager reigns as club kid royalty, holding the power to decide who enters the hottest venues. “The gritty and emotionally charged story pulses like the rapid heartbeat of a girl in distress.”—Booklist “Heartbreaking, occasionally hilarious, and always impossible to set aside.”—Nick Burd, author of The Vast Field of Ordinary** Seventeen-year-old Cat is living every teenager’s dream—her own apartment on New York’s Lower East Side. A struggling high school student by day, she’s club kid royalty by night, guarding the velvet ropes at some of the hottest clubs in the city. The night with its crazy, frenetic, high-inducing energy—the pulsing beat of the music, the radiant, joyful people and those seductive white lines that can ease all pain—this is when Cat truly lives. Because her daytime, when her real life occurs, is more nightmare than dream. The sounds of the city grate against Cat’s nerves, she shrinks away from human touch, and she can barely think the words “I love you” even when she feels them. Having spent years suffering her mother’s emotional and physical abuse, and abandoned by her father, who’s found happiness in another woman, Cat is terrified and alone—unable to connect to anyone or anything. But then someone comes along who makes her want to stop escaping her life and actually live it. She’ll just need to summon the courage to confront the demons and take charge of a life already spinning dangerously out of control.