Lucas is sixteen, lost, traumatized, back in Los Angeles after a year he can barely remember. He is all alone, and all he has is a desire for revenge and the half-remembered skills that allow him to seek said revenge.
Between acts of violence he's not fully in control of and driving lessons from a retired wheelman who doesn't ask questions and offers his own kind of support, Lucas starts maturing in the most unlikely of ways.
The closer he gets to answers, and the more he gets to enact his vengeance, the further he gets from the kid he used to be.
At Risk Youth is the first entry in a gritty crime series about a teenager traversing the underground of a fictionalized LA, and a look at what comes out the other side.