ABOUT
THE BOOK

Twenty-one-year-old Hardy ‘Hardly’ Reed is a minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park. When he notices two children with signs of abuse, he reports it to Child Protective Services, but when they fail to take action, he takes it upon himself. The situation is worse than Hardly expected. The abusive father who has been hurting these children is a lawyer who secretly runs a violent drug-dealing operation.
Faced with a different version of himself than he has ever known, Hardly refuses to give up. But his commitment to saving these kids from further harm might end up getting the kids, and Hardly himself, killed.