Stealing Candy

Levon thinks he’s kidnapping Candy, but she’s the one calling the shots in this darkly comedic road trip story

Candy hates boarding school. As a junior, graduation is still eons away, and making films is the only way to survive the boredom.

Until she is kidnapped.

Candy panics. Along Came a Spider, Ransom, Taken, Cellular… Candy knows how these movies end. The only reason anyone would abduct her is to get a payout from her rock star father. Except Candy and her father are estranged. There’s no way he’s going to pay.

But with every hour that passes, Candy’s fear slowly recedes. Being on the road is freeing, not to mention great material for a new documentary. And the more time she spends with her handsome captor Levon, the more she learns the whole scheme is not just about ransom. It’s about revenge. What began as a kidnapping is spiraling into a crazy road trip adventure as Candy and Levon find a lot of wrong ways to do the right thing.

 "Like the best pop songs, Stewart Lewis’s novel, Stealing Candy, hits all the right notes. It’s funny, suspenseful, touching, sexy … it’s also a road trip, a love story, and an affecting portrait of two desperate characters. I ate it up.”

--Louis Bayard, New York Times Notable Author of Lucky Strikes

“A page-turning, stay-up-late story. Readers are going to love Candy and her wonderful mix of resourcefulness and jaded innocence.  She's the daughter of a one-hit wonder rock star, but she's a whole lot more than that when she's kidnapped and forced to test her wits to survive and—by the end—find real meaning in the life she didn't ask to be born into.”  

—Cammie McGovern, author of SAY WHAT YOU WILL 

 “Stealing Candy is that rare sort of read that keeps you not just guessing, but gasping with every turn of the page.”

--Kieran Scott, author of Pretty Fierce