This is the kind of really accomplished debut that reminds readers why new authors are absolutely worth the effort to seek out and appreciate. With an exceptionally timely story about issues of toxic, obsessive, predatory, power imbalanced relationships, this is a fast paced narrative framed as Tatum Vega revisiting the "friendship" she had with a much older and more accomplished author M. Dominguez over several years, and how it impacted her life, her career, and her relationships, looking back after new stories about the author and his inappropriate behavior have surfaced. Tatum is challenged by what her relationship with the author was as she's forced to reexamine it in a new light. With a cast of Latinx characters and a rich setting in both New York City and Chile, this is a memorable, thoughtful, and interesting story from a new author that readers will want to keep their eye on in the future.