Lakestone School for Boys

You don't reform troubled boys with fists and fear. Unless you want them to fight back. Michaela "Mickey" Braxton didn't expect her new marriage to Tennessee's Attorney General to come with snakes in her bed, break-ins, or the brutal kidnapping of her brother and a friend. But the truth behind Lakestone School for Boys is darker than even she imagined. Boys have vanished behind the gates of the so-called reform school. Others bear invisible wounds. When Mickey and a young Brazilian diplomat's daughter are abducted and taken to Lakestone, they discover firsthand what the guards are hiding-and what justice really costs. With help from allies both legal and lethal, Mickey fights her way out, determined to expose the corruption and cruelty buried in Lakestone's bones. But vengeance has its own rules-and not everyone makes it home alive. Set in 1949 Nashville and rural Tennessee, Lakestone School for Boys blends Southern noir, crime drama, and psychological suspense in a story of loyalty, legacy, and the long shadow of abuse.