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If there is one thing that seventeen-year-old Rain knows and knows well, it is survival. Caring for her little brother, Walker, who is "Touched," and losing the rest of her family to the same disease, Rain has long had to fend for herself on the bleak, dangerous streets of Earth City.

Michelle Simms is tired of her life as a chorus girl in Las Vegas. She reluctantly agrees to marry Hubbell Flowers, who loves her deeply and promises to show her a better life. He brings her to his small hometown, where she receives a rather cold welcome.