A young girl prevails over poverty and religious bigotry to survive childhood abduction, a predatory theologian, family secrets, and the drug culture of the 1960s.
It also explores decades of sex, drugs, and rock \'n\' roll, from the perspective of an evolving free-spirited female..
This fictional story celebrates the ability of a child to survive and thrive, despite those who would do her harm and the failed intentions of those who would protect her.
Decades later, a chance encounter with a childhood nemesis prompts her to revisit the abiding love and playful river romps of her youth, along with a traumatic abduction and family violence.
When her family moves up north to an urban setting, she struggles to overcome the social and gender limitations of the late 1950s and 1960s.
Young Skyla Fay Jenkins is often forced to choose between what\'s labeled righteous and what she knows to be right.
In an Appalachian Mountain town during the early 1950s, guns and domestic abuse are as prevalent as prayer meetings and dubiously ordained preachers.
A young girl prevails over poverty and religious bigotry to survive childhood abduction, a predatory theologian, family secrets, and the drug culture of the 1960s
