rederick Weber’s life is a train wreck waiting to happen—and at just seventeen, he’s already barreling full-speed into the abyss. It all starts when he decks a mob enforcer at a party for insulting Lilac Johnson, the girl he insists is his girlfriend (she isn’t, but that’s Frederick’s plan). Suddenly, he’s facing serious jail time, a pregnancy that probably isn’t his, and locked in a hilarious yet desperate quest for Lilac’s affection.
  Undeterred by her total lack of interest, Frederick embarks on one harebrained scheme after another: paying off a corrupt judge, upgrading his rat-infested digs, and buying a flashy red car he hopes will dazzle Lilac. But when some thugs smash his precious ride—uninsured, of course—his spiraling finances and equally spiraling hopes threaten to topple completely.

   From one misadventure to the next, Frederick’s world grows increasingly absurd, leaving readers torn between laughter and gasps of horror at every turn. Will he pull himself out of this nosedive, or is the abyss calling his name? In this darkly comical tale of obsession and calamity, Frederick’s fast-track descent is as magnetic as it is disastrous, promising a read that’s impossible to put down.