Aspiring actress and high school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her entire life perfecting the roles of daughter, friend, and good student, but when she is found violently murdered in her small, Midwest town, secrets of who she really was begin to emerge.
Told from the perspectives of Hattie, her secret lover, and the sherriff investigating her murder, Everything You Want Me to Be dives into the final year of Hattie's life, as the mystery of her brutal slaying unfolds. The reader is left to wonder, was Hattie merely a victim or did the mesmerizing young woman orchestrate her own untimely death.