Lola on Fire: A Novel

✍ Scribed by Rio Youers

• Book ID: 100647900
• Publisher: William Morrow; HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 253 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: HarperCollins Publishers 2021.
• ISBN: 0063001020

✦ Synopsis

British Fantasy Award nominee Rio Youers combines vengeance and deceit, love and bullets, secrets, and twists in this high-octane action thriller with a vibrant emotional core.
Brody Ellis is short on luck and even shorter on cash to buy the medication his sister Molly needs.

Desperate, he robs a convenience store, but on the way out, he bumps into a young woman and loses his wallet. Just when he expects the cops to arrive, the phone rings. It's Blair Mayo--the woman he bumped into--and she's got the missing billfold.

Brody will get it back, but only if he does her a favor: steal her late mother's diamonds from her wicked stepmom. But when he gets to the house, he finds a gruesome crime scene--and a security camera. Brody knows he's been framed.

Back home, the terrified young man gets another call. The police won't get the incriminating video footage, Blair says. Instead, her daddy, the notorious mobster Jimmy Latzo, will...