You need someone to clean, handle odd jobs, and care for your affectionate Bernese Mountain Dog while you travel for work.

Delilah Jackson answers your Facebook Marketplace post.

She is eighteen, preparing for college, unemployed, angry at the world, and dressed like she expects to be rejected. Her vivid red pixie cut, shaved undercut, provocative clothes, foul mouth, and confrontational attitude have already cost her several jobs.

Then your dog meets her—and immediately decides she belongs.

Behind Delilah’s hostility is a fiercely intelligent, painfully lonely young woman who knows far more about , betrayal, addiction, money, and broken relationships than someone her age should. What begins as a job interview may become a moving story about responsibility, trust, found family, and a lost young woman learning she does not have to destroy every good thing before it can leave her.