Any Girl

That she can stop a rapist never occurs to July Abraham until she falls over Andie at Mark's party. Holding Andie close, smelling the blood oozing from Andie's wounds, shatters the lie that silenced July; she hadn't been his only victim. Now she knows this man attacks any girl because he can; people back away from him; bow down to him, even the cops leave him alone.

In the cold of that dark garden, with Andie unconscious in her arms, July resolves to stop him. She doesn't have wheels, friends, a fortified castle, or an AK 47, but she does know what parts of him look like, she can name the boys from her high school in his gang, and, unlike him, she has nothing to lose.