Erika has a face that garners trust. Strangers tell her things they’ve never told anyone else and they have since she was a kid. This same feature led her to meet a lawyer in public who shared his stress then offered her a job as a PI.

She takes the job and spends years earning people’s trust, sometimes by rearranging her face, sometimes just by being quiet. They investigate a culture of rape at a public university in Colorado where the football team has allegedly raped multiple women and they have never been reported and if they were no charges were filed or punishments occurred.

Following the thread of these sexual assaults, Erika shares the pain of her own sexual assault. She was raped repeatedly as a child by her step-father. As she learns to value herself and set boundaries she loses relationships with her family.

This book is deep and personal. It is simultaneously about pain, hope, and justice, and it’s so well written it reads like a novel.