Brendan has cleaned up and served honorably in the military, showing Hunter that it is possible to overcome the legacy of the monster. When Hunter confronts the man who raped Kristina, he realizes that he is just a good man who allowed crank to control his life. Summer turns to Kyle for support, realizing that he, despite his anger issues and drug use, is the only one who truly understands her. Summer is placed back with her father, a double-edged sword that leaves her confused and alone. At the same time, Autumn realizes she is losing her aunt as Aunt Cora prepares for her wedding day. Autumn and Bryce become intimate and Autumn secretly hopes she will become pregnant. Hunter cheats on his girlfriend and hopes to get away with it, even though the guilt is tearing him up inside. However, standing up for the right thing does not always have the right consequences. Summer has to stand up against this abuse because she knows how deeply it scars. Summer learns that her foster sister is using crank and that she has sexually abused another foster sister. Autumn and Bryce begin to spend more time together and Autumn is shocked when he makes it clear that she is the girl he wants. Hunter wants to support Nikki, but he cannot help but think that she is still luckier than he because at least she knows who her father is. Hunter's girlfriend, Nikki, learns her parents are divorcing because of her father's affair. Lately, however, Summer has noticed that Matt's best friend, Kyle, has been offering more than friendship toward her. Her only joy each day is her boyfriend, Matt. At school, Autumn might as well not exist for the number of people who notice her. Autumn struggles with panic attacks and OCD. Hunter knows his eyes belong to the man who fathered him, a man Kristina swears raped her. Fallout chronicles how these three children of a crank addict blindly find their way to one another and to their own special brand of recovery. Summer has lived in and out of foster homes most of her life and still struggles with the abuse she suffered as a small child at the hands of both her father's girlfriend and a foster father. Hunter is a college student with a great job and a wonderful girlfriend, but cannot seem to control the compulsion to use drugs and cheat on his relationship.
Fallout focuses on three of Kristina's five children who are struggling with the legacy of her drug addiction. Fallout by Ellen Hopkins is the third book in her Crank series.
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