'Drew me in like a whirlpool' NICOLA DINAN'A beautiful fever dream' KRISTEN ARNETT'Highly seductive ... and fun as hell!' TONY TULATHIMUTTE'Brittany Newell is truly one to watch' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH'Incredible ... romantic, dangerous and sexy' KATIE BUCKLEYA hottest book of 2025 in Sunday Times Style, Dazed and StylistA blazing novel following a young woman on a wild, hallucinogenic quest for love and selfhood in San Francisco's seedy underground. Baby is a dancer at a strip club and at the age of 27, she's feeling lost.

It seems that only Dino, her sweet, cross-dressing, drug-dealing ex-boyfriend can keep her afloat. So, when Dino disappears without so much as a kiss goodbye, she plunges headfirst into San Francisco's shady erotic underground to find him. Baby searches through dive bars and old haunts, at the club and at the sex dungeon where she has a part-time dominatrix gig. She encounters clients like Simon, a recluse paying her for increasingly bizarre 'favours' and a philosophizing suicide fetishist named 'Nobody', as well as co-workers like Emeline, the balletic new hire who seems to want to steal Baby's whole identity, starting with her underwear. It's not long before she starts to find cryptic notes hidden in her belongings and realises her search is attracting the wrong kind of attention.