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Innocence Unmasked is a coming-of-age tale that follows a small-town group of high school friends who embark on an unplanned overnight road-trip to mark their last days together before graduation. They tell no one they’re going, wrongly expecting to return before any of their parents unleash the police to track them down. What begins as a simple, carefree adventure quickly transforms into a life-changing journey involving love, loss, mystery and murder, exposing the harsh truth that life in the real world is grievously unpredictable and rarely as kind as they so mistakenly imagined it to be.

The story unfolds both through the eyes of the naively unsuspecting kids, whose perception of reality gets shaken to the bone when their journey brings them face to face with the unthinkable, as well as those of their fretful parents, each of whom suffers the unimaginable plight of their missing children in their own, curiously different ways. The novel explores the delicate tensions between youth and parental expectations and through moments of joy, apprehension and self-discovery, captures the intensity and complexity of growing up, both as kids as well as parents.

 This book will give pause to any pondering adolescent, and with equal force challenge the soul of any caring parent.