Halfway to the Stars

Rachel Max gets more than she bargained for when she leaves her small Vermont town for California seeking adventure, love, and meaningful work, in that order. After a brief attempt to live in LA with her two best friends, she ends up in San Francisco, working as an editor/reporter for an online sex journal. Making her way through a maze of sex parties, sex workers, and sex-positive radicals, Rachel discovers aspects of her own eroticism, not all of them welcome, and it's a challenge for her to write about sex in the upbeat, lighthearted tone demanded by her publisher-boss. She struggles to handle the job, a new boyfriend, and the brave new world she's discovered, facing the reality that an adventurous life is far more complicated than she'd anticipated.