❝my darling angel, how you've grown❞ the teasings of an infatuated nymphet upon a man, too many years her elder

Someone should have told Ivy that playing with fire is dangerous; that she could get burnt.

In the summer of 1967 Lana Andrews meets her new neighbor twenty nine year old Daniel Miles and has a huge crush on him. Daniel is obsessed with the young girl but little do they both know they both don't feel the exact way about one another.

"The city is darker at night; glow-in-the-dark star stickers can only glow so bright for so long before a girl needs to find her own light. You can't stay a little dolly forever." "I'll always be your little dolly. Your girl, always."