Dreams do come true. In this powerful novel by first time author, Karen Beck, a young girl suffers through horrible abuses at the hands of her father, but still maintains her childlike innocence and hope. A mysterious woman is consumed by the desire to rescue the girl and to alert the town to the horrors living within it. Culminating in a nail-biting rescue, this book is a powerful reminder that horrors are occurring all around us, even in the smallest and seemingly safest of American towns.