Seventeen year old Sammie Fagan must make a choice; run away and find Lydia, the only person who ever loved her, or keep hiding from her stepfather. Deciding to catch a bus to Childress, Texas, Sammie finds herself on the side of the road, puzzled by the drop-off, with no money and nowhere to go. She soon learns life is not turning out to be as she planned. Lydia is dead and Sammie is now living in the cellar of Lydia's husband, Cecil Bryan. Day by...