Trophy Girl

<p><strong>Marlis Manley's heartfelt novel of the heartland goes nowhere fast in all the best of ways. It moves and moves us. -Michael Martone author of <em>The Complete Writing of Art Smith</em></strong></p><p>It's summer 1957 and when fourteen-year-old Sandy Turner goes missing<span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-</span>along with one of her late mother's hidden scrapbooks<span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>-</span>Aunt Maggie can think of only one place the girl might be.</p><p>Frank Haggard the race-car driver in those yellowing news clippings assumes the girl claiming to be his daughter is a fan acting on a dare until Maggie tracks them down. Memories of his annulled marriage to Maggie's sister flood over him and the timing couldn't be worse. With the first-ever National Championship for stock cars a week away the last thing he needs is a child-custody battle with Maggie-as determined as she is beautiful. When the car he's planned to pilot is turned over to a younger driver Frank and Maggie make the riskiest deal of their lives-her savings for a race car but if Frank wins he gives up his daughter.</p>