“What do you want to be when you grow up?”

“A prostitute!” said no girl ever.

Decades into her life as a secret courtesan, Sephe Haven is asking herself: How did this become my life? Why did this slipper fit?

From the author of the 2022 Reader's Favorite Gold Metal Winner: My Whorizontal Life, is the five-star rated prequel, A Someday Courtesan, the devastatingly honest account of what it means to grow up "girl" in America.

This is the coming-of-age story of a sensitive, whimsical girl, with an over-abundant curiosity about everything from the power of touch to reincarnation. Determined to live an extraordinary life, Sephe seeks a path out of ordinary suburbia into the world of acting and true love. When her flirtatious superpower leads her into a den of wolves, she must learn to differentiate her allies from the wolves that will devour her, leading her to wonder: Why is punishment the reaction to her sexuality?

How did this girl with enormous dreams end up as an escort?

Sephe Haven’s mesmerizing account reveals the wide-reaching societal impacts on girlhood development. And by following an escort’s intriguing journey to discover her identity, you’ll soon be laughing and crying with every moving and rarely told tale.

This is a woman's voice, a woman's experience, that should be given plenty of room on the shelves and in public discourses.