In this thrilling debut, the first of a quartet, Meyer introduces listeners to an unforgettable heroine in a fresh, fierce take on Cinderella that a little bit fairy tale, a little bit Terminator, and totally genius.

After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.

Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, 'brilliant' but alcoholic parents. At the age of seventeen she escapes on a Greyhound bus to New York with her older sister; her younger siblings...