Tenderness

EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he€s looking for some tenderness€"tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness€"tenderness she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other€s salvation or destruction?

€œCormier is in top form in this chilling portrait of a serial murderer. . . . Gripping.€€"School Library Journal, Starred

An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults