Seventeen-year-old Xochi loves her job as live-in governess for tween genius Pallas, enchanted by the girls pagan rockstar parents and the storybook Victorian mansion they share with their band, Lady Frieda. Determined to deserve the fairytale life she's fallen into, Xochi does her best to put Pallas's needs before her own--ignoring the grief that lingers from her grandmother's death and rejecting her growing attraction to Pallass guitar player dad, who shares her half Mexican heritage and troubled past. Then, on the night of the Vernal Equinox with a party raging in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a riot-grrrl ritual that unintentionally summons the Waterbabies. When her new life and past traumas collide, Xochi must come to terms with her complicated feelings for Pallass father, save the mother who abandoned her and find a way to send the Waterbabies home before the San Francisco fog extinguishes their fierce magic.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.