Summary

The novel is narrated in first-person present by the 16-year-old protagonist, Georgia Avis. The story begins with Georgia on her knees in the storeroom of a mall, about to perform oral sex on a man. However, she remembers running away at 13 because of a fight with her mother. While walking on the deserted mountain road up to the members-only resort called Aspera, Matthew Hayes, the wealthy owner of the resort, had stopped to give Georgia a ride. He told Georgia she was beautiful and said she should come be an “Aspera Girl” when she was older. Georgia’s mom worked at the resort as a maid, and Georgia had always admired the beautiful Aspera Girls.

The man in the mall storeroom asks Georgia if she is going to get started. She asks to see the pictures he took of her one more time, and...