A Sugar Baby

A Sugar Baby, a courageous and heartbreaking first collection from Elly McQueen, opens with the rules of the paid companionship game and explores the dangers and delights of love for hire. From a seemingly cavalier approach, the author offers her firsthand experience, carefully guiding readers from a transactional understanding of money, sex, and power to a careful illumination of the disenchantment, pain, loss, and grief experienced by one who has chosen to break the rules of deception and detachment. McQueen walks us through the lessons she’s learned about what money can and cannot buy, and in her pursuit of healing in the aftermath of forbidden love, she uncovers the persistence of hope in a life and love not based on exchange.