JAQ, A TOP BOY STORY PB

AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR Im going to tell you everything. Im gonna tell you the whole story. Sometimes all it takes is a single message. Maybe its bad, like a rival top boys been switched off. Or maybe its good, like an opportunity you never thought youd get. But opportunities mean risks, and debts, and you never want to owe anyone anything. Jaqs worked hard on the road since she was fourteen, bringing in money to keep her broken family afloat. Now shes built a good life near the top of the Summerhouse crew, with a beautiful home she shares with her girlfriend Becks and her heavily pregnant older sister Lauryn. But messages are coming in - good and bad - and Jaq has to make a choice: step back from the road and start a life shes never even considered. Or seize her opportunities and risk everything for life-changing money. Either way, Jaq will make enemies. And those enemies arent going to let her go easily . . .