"In Ridgefield, the lights are always on. They just don't always illuminate the right things." When seventeen-year-old Nora Callahan transfers to Ridgefield High nine weeks into the school year, she arrives with ink-stained fingers, three notebooks, and a journalist's instinct for the story hiding underneath the story everyone agrees to tell. She pitches a profile piece on Amber Voss — head cheerleader, luminous, untouchable — for the school paper. She gets two conversations. Then Amber is found dead in a supply room under the stadium bleachers on homecoming night, and Nora is the one who finds her. What follows is an investigation Nora was never supposed to conduct, into a town she was never supposed to understand, full of people who are all hiding something — just not necessarily what she thinks. The star running back who asks all the right questions and answers none of his own. The co-captain cheerleader who arrived to the interview with her grief quote already written out and filed. The quiet team manager who keeps the books for a program that runs on more than Friday night wins. And at the center of it all, a beloved silver-haired coach whose warmth is so total, so effortless, so completely accepted by a town desperate to believe in him, that the investigation keeps steering around him without anyone meaning to steer. Amber Voss was not who she appeared to be. Her death was not what it appeared to be. And the person Nora is falling for may be the most dangerous variable of all. Fast-paced, sharply written, and impossible to put down, Under the Lights is a propulsive murder mystery about the stories small towns tell themselves, the secrets that live beneath the performance of ordinary life, and one relentless seventeen-year-old who refuses to let the truth stay buried — even when the truth turns out to be the most complicated thing she has ever had to carry. YA Mystery, High School, Thriller, Murder Mystery, Beach Read, Debut Novel, Female Protagonist, Small Town Secrets Publisher: Independent Genre: Young Adult / Mystery & Thriller Age Range: 14 and up