A Fair Maiden [antikvár]

Katya's superficial coating of street-smartness masks an unhappy upbringing in New Jersey at the hands of an abusive single mother. Her father is missing and her only prior experience of affection has been a messy entanglement with her violent cousin. Bayhead Harbor offers the prospect of an enticing new world, far away from the "soft, formless, graceless things, soiled and sagging sofas, worn vinyl chairs" of her hometown.