At nineteen, Michelle West is this close to her dream life: a brownstone in New York’s West Village, a couple of kids, a gorgeous, successful husband. The problem is that these are not her kids, this is not her house, and Jeffrey Goldman is not Michelle’s husband. The terror of getting caught, getting fired, and returning home to Seattle in shame isn’t enough to scare her straight—but as she and her circle of au pair friends are about to discover, beneath the surface of their power-couple-employers’ perfect lives is an ocean of deception, addiction, and scandal. And for Michelle and the friends she’s fighting to protect, the stakes are higher than any of them imagine.