Ten years. A decade. Time enough for a high school graduate from a small, sleepy southern town to move on and become something. But what? And is it enough time to forget?
Trayce is an internet entrepreneur in Chicago, and she has moved on, been hired to manage the very company she founded. Is ten years enough time to heal the emotional scars she suffered?
Solomon never moved away. The quiet boy nobody remembers, but who knows all the secrets. After ten disappointing years, can he put his life on track and make himself heard?
Janet, head cheerleader and homecoming queen, fell from grace after graduation. In Las Vegas she works as an exotic dancer. Is ten years enough time to get over being jilted by the love of her life?
Karim, the handsome and successful New York music video director who is on everyone’s lips, wasn’t always like that. Ten years ago he was bullied and ridiculed by the Crew, the most popular clique in school. How will they react to him now?
At their ten-year class reunion, how will these four handle it? And what are their motives? Friendships will begin. Friendships will end. Trusts will be broken and secrets revealed. And after ten years, we’ll find that ... sticks and stones may break your bones, but there are worse things.
Eric Pete is an award-winning author and one of the hottest voices in contemporary fiction today. Born in Seattle, he grew up on a steady diet of reading and late night films. This love of print and film continued when Eric relocated “back home” with his mother to Louisiana. A graduate of McNeese State University, he now resides in Texas, where he is currently working on his next novel.