Great Falls, Virginia!

Dusty Rose’s past finally catches up with her on the eve of her daughter Ginny’s high school graduation. Drugs, sex, rock and roll and even a Christian cult, a subdued part of Dusty's history since Ginny came along, becomes a mandatory tale to be told when Ginny’s close friend Roberta is murdered by her boyfriend.

What begins as a letter to her daughter becomes a book-length 90’s cautionary tale to Ginny about Dusty’s youth in the 70’s. In it Dusty shares the wild times and misadventures of what can happen to young women who trade "belonging” to a guy for the dreams they hoped to have come true – as in Roberta’s case and, once upon a time, very nearly Dusty’s. In rediscovering the book in a storage box, Dusty gives Virginia a ‘heads up’ that maybe it’s time to pass it on to her granddaughter Shelly who has just come of age and is ready to launch into Life.