In Arhat, Iowa, there are cornfields and there's the Colony. Smart and precocious fifteen-year-old Eve is feeling stymied by both. So she gets her first job as a highway work crew flagman, falls in love with a local teen Adonis and his widowed father, and plots to intervene in her best friend's arranged marriage. As Thomas Rayfiel's Colony Girl races to an unexpected climax, Eve finds herself trying to save the colony at the same time as she struggles to break free of its ominous control.

A quirky, funny, unsettling, Twin Peaks-style mystery. When Allen Stanley's father is found dead in the bathtub, his wrists slashed, Allen is summoned back to the suburb where he grew up. But the simple matter of arranging the burial and settling the estate soon becomes entangled in the shadowy side of suburban life.