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Chapters (42)
  1. Copyright Notice
  2. Dedication
  3. PART 1
  4. CLAUDIA
  5. EDIE
  6. TREVOR
  7. CLAUDIA
  8. TREVOR
  9. EDIE
  10. CLAUDIA
  11. TREVOR
  12. TREVOR
  13. CLAUDIA
  14. PART 2
  15. EDIE
  16. EDIE
  17. EDIE
  18. EDIE
  19. PART 3
  20. CLAUDIA
  21. TREVOR
  22. TREVOR
  23. CLAUDIA
  24. JEREMY
  25. TREVOR
  26. RIDLEY
  27. CHAD
  28. CLAUDIA
  29. LARS
  30. PART 4
  31. EDIE
  32. TREVOR
  33. TREVOR
  34. EDIE
  35. CLAUDIA
  36. TREVOR
  37. TREVOR
  38. CLAUDIA
  39. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  40. Also by Julia Dahl
  41. About the Author
  42. Newsletter Sign-up

Back in his room, Trevor Googled Claudia Castro. She had nearly twenty thousand followers on Instagram, and the last time she’d posted was the night before they’d met. The night whatever happened to her happened to her. The photo was a selfie taken from that elevated angle girls use that makes them look vulnerable when they’re actually entirely in control. The caption read: #springbreak #staycation #nyc. There were other selfies in the feed, too, and some weird art. Wikipedia said her dad was a music producer who had worked with Beck and Rihanna and the Strokes and won a bunch of Grammys. Her mom had been a model, the daughter of a senator who died in a plane crash. He followed some links to old gossip items about Claudia’s parents, who apparently: never married but had been together for more than two decades. There were pictures of them with Johnny Depp and Kate Moss, Jennifer Lopez and Puffy, and an article about someone in a London hotel calling the police because of their “loud sex.” There were images of Claudia and her sister, Edie or Eden, depending on the captions, posing beneath white tents, in front of banners, on boats; with friends, boyfriends, celebrities. Edie appeared taller than Claudia in most, but they could have been twins with their long brown hair and golden-flecked eyes. Right after the New Year, Claudia was named one of Manhattan magazine’s Most Beautiful New Yorkers under Twenty-five. The magazine called her an “art patron, student” and linked to a six-year-old article from the New York Post: