A decade ago, Ambhyr earned viral infamy when she livestreamed a video of herself shooting and killing her none-too-bright boyfriend. (Boomer thought the bulletproof vest he made would protect him.) After a decade of hard work and ruthless self-discipline, Ambhyr became Catherine, an engineer and single mother who thought she had no interest in dating until Robert came along.

Unfortunately, Kay'lah, her fourteen-year-old daughter, is making some of the same mistakes Catherine made in her youth, giving away too much of herself for the approval of boys. Can Catherine keep her daughter on the straight-and-narrow while nurturing the new and exciting romance she thought she would never experience?

This novelette unspools the story of a loving mother who learned lessons the hard way and a willful teenage daughter who, of course, thinks she knows best.