Kayla was on her way to Western Massachusetts. She’d heard about a community where people were respected for who they were and not expected to be who their families wanted them to be.
-- Narrator (Part 1: Chapter 1)

Importance: After Ivy runs away from home when she learns her parents want to put her baby up for adoption, she meets Kayla. Kayla tells Ivy that she is going to a Community where people are accepted without judgment. Ivy learns too late that she has become involved with a club.

Kenneth Jacob sifted through them as the detective explained that Ivy had fallen in with a cultish community run by a crackpot whose rules included a code that compelled members to sever all ties with their families of origin, completely cutting off contact.
-- Narrator (Part 1: Chapter 1)

Importance: The detective Kenneth hired found Ivy living in this cultish Community. He determined that Ivy had married Joel, the leader of the Community...