The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

Lane Roanoke is fifteen when she comes to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin at the Roanoke family’s rural estate following the suicide of her mother. Over one long, hot summer, Lane experiences the benefits of being one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But what she doesn’t know is being a Roanoke girl carries a terrible legacy: either the girls run, or they die. For there is darkness at the heart of Roanoke, and when Lane discovers its insidious pull, she must make her choice…
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Parental abandonment
- Statutory rape
- Incest
- Physical child abuse
- Graphic suicide recounted
- Teen pregnancy
- Childbirth
- Abortion mentioned
- Alcohol consumption
- Death of an infant mentioned
- Death of a mother
- Murder
- Drowning
- Hanging recounted
- Death from a fall mentioned
- Disappearnace of a loved one