25 Roses, by Maggie J. Shepeard

For me, family has always meant showing up—especially for my younger sister, Phoenix, a bright, reckless young woman drawn into the dangerous orbit of the Smythe brothers. What begins as a toxic romance soon becomes something far darker: drugs, abuse, white-supremacist violence, and a secret Phoenix may not live long enough to reveal.

Then comes the 2:00 a.m. phone call. Phoenix says the brothers killed a man. Days later, she is nearly killed in a car crash with no brake marks. What follows is a federal murder investigation that will test every bond we thought could not break.

Part true-crime account, part story of sisterhood and survival, 25 Roses asks what we owe the people we love when the truth may destroy them.