Trophy Girl

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A runaway. A race-car champion. A secret that could change both their lives.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Summer 1957.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Fourteen-year-old Sandy Turner disappears from her Kansas hometown with one destination in mind: the dirt-track racing circuit. In her suitcase she carries a stack of hidden scrapbooks-yellowed newspaper clippings about Frank Haggard a rising stock-car driver she believes may be her real father. Frank thinks the girl claiming to be his daughter is just another racing fan acting on a dare.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But Sandy knows things about his past no stranger should know.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>With the first-ever Grand National Championship only days away and the car owner insisting on a publicity stunt that could endanger other drivers Frank has no time for family drama. But when Sandy's determined aunt Maggie arrives to take her home old secrets are exposed old wounds reopen and when the car owner hires a younger driver Frank and Maggie strike a desperate bargain:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Maggie's savings for a replacement ride but if Frank wins he will give up any claim to the girl who might prove to be his daughter.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Set against the roar of 1950s dirt tracks and the restless energy of rock-and-roll America </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Trophy Girl</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a sweeping coming-of-age novel about identity ambition and the families we fight to claim.</span></p>