Pretty : A Novel

A powerful debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Some Girls Jillian Lauren's breathtakingly honest memoir, Some Girls , earned both critical praise and outstanding sales. In Pretty , Lauren delivers on her promise as a ''natural storyteller'' (_Los Angeles Weekly_) with an electrifying novel about a broken girl looking to be saved. Everything seemed simple when Bebe's musician boyfriend, Aaron, promised that they'd start a new life in San Francisco. But now Aaron is dead--killed in a fatal car crash that she survived--and Bebe is stuck in LA. As she tries to piece her life back together with the help of her makeshift family of friends--from both the halfway house where she's in recovery for addiction and from her beauty school--she finds salvation in unexpected places. An electrifying debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Some Girls . Bebe Baker is an ex-everything: ex-stripper, ex-Christian, ex-drug addict, ex-pretty girl. It's been one year since the car accident that killed her boyfriend left her scarred and shaken. Flanked by an eccentric posse of friends, she is serving out a self-imposed sentence at a halfway house, while trying to finish cosmetology school. Amid the rampant diagnoses, over-medication, compulsive eating, and acrylic nails of Los Angeles, Bebe looks for something to believe in before something—her past, the dangerously magnetic men in her life, her own bad choices—knocks her off course again. Bebe Baker is an ex-everything: ex-stripper, ex-Christian, ex-drug addict, ex-pretty girl. It's been one year since the car accident that killed her boyfriend left her scarred and shaken. Flanked by an eccentric posse of friends, she is serving out a self-imposed sentence at a halfway house while trying to finish cosmetology school. Amid the rampant diagnoses, over-medication, compulsive eating, and acrylic nails of Los Angeles, Bebe looks for something to believe in before something -- her past, the dangerously magnetic men in her life, her own bad choices -- knocks her off course again Cuno Massey killed a pack of Deputy U.S. Marshals, but only because they were about to rape the women he was escorting to safety. Thrown into a federal penitentiary, he faces a death sentence-until the beautiful Camilla and her cutthroat gang bust him out and head for the Mexican border