Rosa works as a professional cuddler or intimacy therapist. People tend to get the wrong idea about that job, so she rather not tell what she does for a living. Most certainly not her parents or that guy she's been dating that she rather likes.

But then she runs in to an old foe, who now works as a gossip columnist and has forgotten she is no longer in highschool. She tells Rosa's parents about Rosa's job - or some interpretation of it that may or may not be accurate. Rosa's mom his beside herself with indignation. She pretty much tells Rosa she is now dead to her.

And while I'm thinking that Rosa was absolutely right about not telling her parents about her job (though she might have come up with a few better lies), Rosa thinks it is all her own fault that her life is down the toilet. She goes to visit her parents. A trip she hasn't made in three years.

It's during the mother's rant that Rosa should be ashamed of herself and that she doesn't know what love is that I stopped reading. Her mom's a bully that has no respect for personal boundaries.

I received an ARC through Booksirens.