Introduction
Not much is heard these days about teenage runaways. In the late sixties, this problem had reached epidemic proportions. Nationwide networks were set up to help distraught parents communicate with these children. Today you don't read much in the papers about runaways, but they're still out there, lonely, frightened and in trouble.
The heroine of this novel, a blonde California teen-ager, had suffered the most humiliating sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. When she could no longer bear living under the same roof with him, she fled-only to wind up in the hands of even more unscrupulous people. She was taken in by the well-known millionaire publisher of a national "skin" magazine, whose feature spreads had lately included all manner of erotic photographs, and whose "blue" movies starring Hollywood's most celebrated faces, were the underground rage. So penniless and unsophisticated our heroine falls prey to this viper.
This is the story of one young girl's struggle to retain her decency in the face of a corrupt world. But admirers of fine literature will not fail to draw parallels of meaning on other levels. For this is the story of the eternal struggle of the forces of blind animal instinct against the rational mind.
-The Publishers