The Final Girl Support Group

Lynnette is the first-person protagonist of The Final Girl Support Group. Of all the Final Girls, she is the one most concerned with safety. She’s paranoid and hypervigilant. She trusts no one, especially men, and if she allows herself to trust anyone, she then punishes herself for thinking it was safe to put down her guard. Lynnette’s home security is over-the-top: Her apartment is caged and locked, and she has a panic room. Her entire life is designed to avoid danger, from keeping her hair short, to wearing grab-proof clothes, to never taking the same route twice.

Lynnette’s backstory as a Final Girl is associated with the real movies Silent Night, Deadly Night and its sequel. In the novel’s version, the psychotic Ricky dressed up as Santa Claus and murdered Lynnette’s family; a few years later, his brother Billy did the same to Lynnette’s foster parents. She was the sole survivor of both attacks, saved both times by police officer Garrett P. Cannon. Even though Garrett is 23 years older, married, and has children, he and Lynnette entered into a sexual relationship. She was in love, but he was mostly after the fame and fortune of being connected to her story.