3rd & Agnes

A girl gets pulled across the one line in Los Angeles nobody warns you about, falls for the boy running the block outside her new door, and ends up the only person alive who knows what her family's "justice" actually cost. Evynne Monet was a Westside girl until her mother married into a "good family" and moved them to Agnes Road in Lynwood at the height of the 1980s. The house was everything her mother had worked for — a deep lot, a big tree, an attached garage. What came with it was a stepfather the family adored and Evynne feared, a block where the corner ran its own economy, and Dare, the twenty-one-year-old who noticed the fifteen-year-old no one else was watching. When her stepfather dies after a confrontation with Dare, the family calls it justice served — and the case closes clean for everyone except the one person who was actually there. A coming-of-age story about the stories families tell to survive themselves — and what it costs the one person who refuses to believe them.