"You are a girl. Your body is vulnerable. Men will break it if they can - and out there, they absolutely will. Bodies must be controlled in order to be safe. Suffering will prepare you for the worst - the cure is nothing compared to what you've been spared in the sickness. It takes a lot of love to hurt you like this. Now come outside. It's time to play the drowning game." -- Back cover.

"Imagine a world very close to our own: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are required to raise a daughter. This is the story of Grace, Lia, and Sky kept apart from the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love. And it is the story of the men who come to find them - three strangers washed up by the sea, their gazes hungry and insistent, trailing desire and destruction in their wake." -- Good reads.