This book is clearly written and marketed as YA, but the sexual assault content is pretty severe for that genre. The adult male chief of police gropes and leers at the teenage female lead. He is revealed to have sexual abused a number of other underage girls before. In the last third of the book, there is an extended scene in which the policeman prepares to rape the teen lead. He does not touch her, but he coerces her by threatening to torture her friend, makes many lewd comments, and undresses in front of her with the intention of bathing together. She is able to incapacitate him and escape.