pstrongAn NPR Best Book of the Yearstrongstrongem - emstrongstrongA emBuzzfeedem Best Book of the Yearstrongp pLike lightning in a bottle, Robin Wasserman's emGirls on Fireem captures girlhood friendship in all its shattering intensity. A captivating, terrifying novel, and one you won't forget. --Megan AbbottppOn Halloween, 1991, a popular high school basketball star ventures into the woods near Battle Creek, Pennsylvania, and disappears. Three days later, he's found with a bullet in his head and a gun in his hand--a discovery that sends tremors through this conservative community, already unnerved by growing rumors of Satanic worship in the region.ppIn the wake of this incident, bright but lonely Hannah Dexter is befriended by Lacey Champlain, a dark-eyed, Cobain-worshiping bad influence in lip gloss and Doc Martens. The charismatic, seductive Lacey forges a fast, intimate bond with the impressionable Dex, making her over in her own image and unleashing a fierce defiance that neither