Chappaqua: A Novel

What happens when the person that everyone depends on needs someone to depend on?.... Standing on the threshold of senior year, Katie Fitzpatrick has it all. Excellent grades. Great friends. Good looks. She's the go-to girl and a star athlete at one of the nation's top high schools in America's dream town. In a place where money flows, life is ideal and no one is ever troubled, Katie is a shining star streaking through the sky.... Unfortunately, age seventeen is a bad time to discover that fairy tales have dark underbellies. When a single event pierces the illusion of perfection, Katie finds herself in unfamiliar waters. Floating alone, her troubles multiplying, she searches for solutions, only to find that when you're the perfect girl in the perfect town, it's hard to convince anyone that anything is wrong. Her dilemmas compounded by the unyielding demands of friends, family and life, Katie turns in directions she would never consider before, looking for light at the end of a very dark tunnel.