"Mystery, mayhem and humor ensue in Taylor Barton's fabulous Hotheaded Saints. Pull up a chaise, pour a glass of Long Island ice tea, shake the sand out of your shoes and read. A wonderful escape!" --Adriana Trigiani Best selling author of Big Stone Gap, Lucia, Lucia and Rococo "Hotheaded Saints is layered and revealing, dark and hopeful at the same time. Taylor Barton has drawn a compelling and fascinating portrait of the underbelly of the Hamptons and the interior life of a woman in search of redemption in it." --Rosanne Cash Singer, Songwriter, Author of Bodies of Water and Penelope Jane Taylor Barton's exceptional debut novel explores, in stunning prose, the cutthroat and catty world of artist rivalry; and family wreckage caused by drug-induced insanity. Although Hotheaded Saints is fraught with a myriad of inner and outer demons, at its core lie's a transformative faith in the healing powers of destiny. --Martine Bellen Author or Vulnerability of Order Hotheaded Saints is a fiery, rip-roaring ride through the overwrought Hamptons; a kaleidoscope of the Bonnackers verses the A-listers. Hotheaded Saints exploits long buried injustices and the inexorable flow of a history that creates a tableau of epic tragedy.