With the suicide of her brother and death of her mother ten months later, Paul Simon's "A Mother and Child Reunion" often played in Louise's head. The two people who had influenced her most were gone. Without them, who was she? It was time to find out. As the saying goes, bad decisions make for great stories. And after it was all said and done, Louise had some great stories to tell. The Valiant is the first in a series of adventures that takes a girl from an abused child to confident adult.