ItÕs 1971, and seventeen-year-old Chloe and her best friend MJ head to San Francisco to ring in the New Year. But Chloe has an ulterior motiveÑand a secret. SheÕs pregnant and has devised a plan not to be. In San FranciscoÕs flower-power heyday, it was (just about) legal to end her pregnancy.

But as soon as the girls cross the Golden Gate, the scheme starts to unravel amid the bellbottoms, love-beads, and bongs. ChloeÕs secrets escalate until she betrays everyone she cares about. MJ, who has grave doubts about ChloeÕs plan. Her groovy aunt Kiki, whoÕs offered the girls a place to crash. Her self-absorbed mother meditating back in Phoenix. And maybe, especially, the boy she wishes sheÕd waited for.

In Susan Carlton's Love and Haight, Chloe discovers that easy love is anything but easy.