Seventeen-year-old Xochi is alone in San Francisco, running from her painful past: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her. Then one day, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old who lives with her rock-star family in one of the city’s storybook Victorians. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas’s live-in governess and quickly finds her place in their household, which is relaxed and happy despite the band’s larger-than-life fame. But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas accidentally… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Racism
- Sexism
- Rape recounted & sexual assault
- Child sex trafficking, implied
- Adult-minor relationship*
- Child abuse & neglect
- Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use
*Context: The main characters is a seventeen-year-old girl whose love interest is her twenty-eight-year-old male employer.
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