In recent years, Riley Thompson has developed a gift, if anyone would really call it that. The ten year old girl from a small town in Indiana doesn't understand why she can feel what others feel, or see what others have seen. She only knows the hurt upon looking into the eyes of her mother-the beneficiary of her father's recent run of bad luck. A streak that has hardened his heart and often finds him drowning in the bottom of a bottle. She tries hard...