<p><b>A <i>USA Today</i> Best of 2022, and a <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Bestseller!</b><br><br><i>A Thousand Steps</i> is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker.<br><br>Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment.<br><br>Matt Anthony is just trying get by.<br><br>Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom¿s a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother¿s fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she¿s just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesn¿t believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach.<br><br>All Matt really wants to do is get his