Valiant

Simon Pulse Trade Paperback with 374 pages - When seventeen year old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new i.d. she takes up with a gang f squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. When one person talks her into tracing down a lair of a mysterious creature with whom they all involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.