Hot Wax

Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to join the concert tour that could launch Gil and his band The Kills to stardom. But fame has sharper teeth than anyone imagined, and internal power struggles set the band on a collision course destined for a violent reckoning that will become legend.

The sole witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear. She trades the music and chaos of her youth for suburban calm and the company of her mild-mannered husband, Rob. But when her father’s sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried to bury, Suzanne hits the road in search of answers. Hitching her fate and Gil’s beloved car to two vagabonds living in an old Airstream trailer, she rediscovers desire, adventure, and the woman she once wanted to be. But Rob refuses to let her go. Determined to bring her back, he chases her across the country forcing Suzanne into choices she never imagined. Drenched in knock-down, drag-out rock and roll, Hot Wax is a raucous, breakneck ride to hell and back where getting lost might be the only way to find yourself and save your soul.