From inside sleeve:
A powerful and poignant novel of a beautiful and willful young girl who knew the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Money wasn't everything. Jill Blankenship knew that. There were forms of security far more subtle, styles of success far more grand, Jill knew, than mere money could buy. The Montana winds that howled through the cracks in the wall of the tarpaper shack where she grew up and the hunger that haunted her childhood had taught her that much. So money-the right kind of money- and position and gilt-edged security were all part of Jill's dream.
But beside Jill's dream, and desperately at war with it, raged Jill's hunger-that profound and poignant yearning for affection and all the tender closeness she had been denied as a child. Sometimes Jill had to bargain for that warmth she needed so badly with the body that meant so little to her and so much to the boys with whom she shared her first tastes of freedom.
