Emiyo's sixteenth birthday was supposed to be her ticket out of Reseda Vale, but a career-ending injury on the track leaves her with nothing but a shattered leg and a viral video of her failure. Within hours, she loses her scholarship, her home, and her family to a series of dark and bizarre tragedies. Left with nowhere to turn, she is scouted by the eccentric Lira V and swept into the clandestine world of the V-Boutique.Now reinvented under a forged identity, Emiyo must acclimatize a surreal new life alongside a tiny, sharp-tongued matriarch, a stoic veteran with a tendency to solve problems with sledgehammers, and a green-furred puppet who might be the world's strangest doctor. In this high-stakes house of fashion and secrets, Emiyo quickly learns that while she can no longer run, she'll have to fight harder than ever just to stay in the game.