Laura Lascarso

In the Pines Laura Lascarso

When your high school crush is also your number one suspect, what's a boy to do?After the disappearance of Eastview High's homecoming king, seventeen-year-old Charlie Schiffer must put his detective skills to work to help class heartthrob Dare Chalmers find his missing twin brother. From the gator-filled swamps of Paynes Prairie to the truck-stop strip club Café Risqué, there's no situation too dicey for this amateur sleuth when he's on the prowl for clues to this mystery. Meanwhile, Dare is everything Charlie could want in a boyfriend-charismatic, handsome, polite-but as Charlie's mother always says, the unlikeliest people can turn out to be criminals. When evidence surfaces revealing his suspects' hidden motives, Charlie must dig deep to suss out who among them is innocent and who is guilty, even if it means betraying the man he cares for most.