Baltimore, 1954. The city runs on two rules: stay in your lane, and know which side you’re on. The Squares are the ones with the money, the manners, and the mothers who approve, and you’ve always been one of them. Nice clothes, good grades, the right friends. Life has a shape, and you fit it perfectly. But something’s been itching under the surface for longer than you’d like to admit. Then Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker shows up. Leather jacket, one tear on his cheek, and a gaze that makes you feel like the most interesting person in the room. He’s a Drape. A delinquent. Everything your world says to stay away from. And yet. Based on the 1990 John Waters film, this is a reader-driven story about two worlds colliding, and what you’re willing to lose to find out what you actually want.