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A young woman freefalls into a "fast . . . stark swirl of sex, violence and near-madness" in this daring novel of dark desire (Publishers Weekly).

When Josie, an anthropology grad student, is unexpectedly offered a job as the nanny for a six-year-old boy, she innocently accepts. Though Josie doesn't necessarily need the job, there's something about her ward's single mom, Mary—her beauty, her confidence, her resemblance to Josie's estranged mother—that's soothing to Josie. It also breeds ...