Award-winning journalist Vivian Ho exposes a shattering true-crime story, shedding light on America’s new lost generation. In 2015, the senseless Bay Area murders of twenty-three-year-old Audrey Carey and sixty-seven-year-old Steve Carter were personal tragedies for the victims’ families. But they also shed light on a more complex issue. The killers were three drifters scrounging for a living among a burgeoning counterculture population. Moving beyond the disheartening statistics, Vivian Ho gives voices to these young people—victims of abuse, failed foster care, mental illness, and drug addiction. With alarming urgency, she asks what can be done to save the next generation of America’s vagabond youth.