Steve Nicholls, a sixteen-year-old high school student, is the focus ofOne Down, One to Go. When Steve loses his father to lung cancer, itisn't long before his mother remarries the owner of the local Forddealership. Steve has always been a good student, and very muchinvolved in athletic competition. Unfortunately, he quickly learnsthat his new stepfather, an individual possessed of certain unsavoryappetites, has a different kind of sport in mind . . . and, soon enough, he manages to seduce his stepson. Pressures mount from every side, until Steve, discovering the truth of his stepfather's sordid past, resolves to kill both parents when they're sleeping. But will he?A savagely entertaining debut novel based on a true story, OneDown, One to Go is an acutely probing examination of some of thedarker recesses of the human heart.