An audio book.
Phoebe (an only child of NY shrinks - one child too many) goes to LA. We're told that there's a detective in this story, and it's not her. We're told there's a missing person in the story that might be her. She's looking for Arabella, the 18 y.o. lost daughter of a friend, Roselyn. She meet Hiest, a detective in his 50s who has a cowboy style. He finds people. He has an opossum and a young girl in his office. She offers to accompany him on his investigations. She wants sex, ending up with Heist. Arabella seems to have used the name "Phoebe". Heist doesn't want Phoebe to be tracable, wanting her to hide her car and not use her credit card. Up in the mountains they find a ritually murdered girl - not Arabella. The mountain people, off grid, are his kin. He was the first born there. There are "rabbit" people and "bears". He spent time in each then got into foster care and went to college. Now the bears have a new leader - Solitary Love. There's a fight to the death between Heist and Solitary Love. Heist wins, gruesomely. Phoebe finds Arabella in the audience. She's happy to be taken home.
Phoebe returns back to the wild lands to find Heist - he's wounded and needs help. She gets stuck on a Ferris wheel, escapes, and drives away with Heist to a hotel, tidying him up. She has sex with him, cries. She thinks they might be done for murder. By chance, they meet her friend Stephanie and her artist friend Wild Edge. She shows off about her now exciting life.
There are literary allusions - fair enough because she worked at a literary magazine for a while.
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