Three orphaned sisters, each burdened with fears, find themselves fleeing from an abusive, revenge-seeking foster mother. The girls evade authorities and their past when they land on the doorstep of a bachelor, who lives with his two German shepherds at his rural Washington state home. Twelve-year-old Chris, a victim of sexual abuse, only wants to keep her sisters together, Katie, 10, a victim of physical abuse and eight-year-old Jane, a victim of verbal abuse. Fleeing from their past, the girls grow closer to the man who decides to battle the court system to adopt them. But the girl''s psychotic foster mother and a tragic ending await the sisters when their horrifying past finally catches up to them.

Growing up in Southern California, Jim has also lived in Oregon, Washington, and currently in Arizona with his wife and daughter. He's a graduate from the University of Oregon with a bachelor's degree in journalism, and has been a journalist for the last 12 years. He started his journalism career working at two newspapers in Northern California. He now works at a newspaper in Bullhead City, Arizona. He's a winner of the Arizona Newspapers Association's Best News Story award. Jim started writing short stories after high school and has five novels and 17 short stories ready to publish.