title: Hope Run
author: Osborne, Stephen
description: In Rural southern Ohio, Mike Harrison and Mary Bryant are high school seniors looking to escape; he from a distant and resentful father, and she from a family legacy of dropping out, getting married and making babies. The arrival of transfer students, Tony Duvardo, Mike's rival on the football field, and Norma West, a hot-blooded vixen, complicates their lives and leads to betrayal, murder and Mike's quest for redemption...