Teresa Davis Doherty

Set in the late 1960s a young girl journeys through personal as well as family heartbreak. At six years old, Kate Lynn Swedin encounters the foster care system for the first time. With a mentally unstable mother and an alcoholic Father, Kate is taken away from all she has ever known and plunged into a darkness that threatens to break her.

Just when Kate feels she has reached her darkest point a hand reaches out with a glimmer of hope her heart has longed for. Sophia, a short Italian woman in her mid thirties along with her husband Paul take on the challenge of raising Kate and her three siblings. Now Kate meets a future that is full of opportunity for discovering what love and compassion is from strangers who hold her future happiness in their hands.