Before the Flock

It's the waning days of the 1980s and Kurt Franklin, headman for Thunderstick, the "New Romantic" alt-rock band is signed to a major label and on the brink of success. Unfortunately he is also off his meds and convinced his songs and the group's imminent success are divinely ordained. In walks Sophie Clark, a teenage supermodel who dabbles in witchcraft. She finds respite from her own fast and fierce education on the catwalks and casting couches in a love triangle that might rip the band apart. The parallel plots in Before the Flock, says Kirkus Reviews, "artfully converge into a blur of rock gigs, sex and expository melodrama--all depicted with pitch-perfect clarity."