Alice Swanson was always envious of the perfect life her childhood neighbor, William Jennings Choyce, and his family seemed to have. But after she married him, she slowly realized that nothing under the surface was as perfect as it seemed.

Lindsay Wrinkles always knew her father had a short temper, but she never expected to be on the run from him when she was only 14; as she runs from hideout to hideout, desperate to evade him, Wrinkles wonders what will happen if he ever finds her.