Full Summary:

Tabitha Smith has been on the run with her father ever since he kidnapped her from her home in Florida, when she was four. Her mother, a missionary that travels all over the world, was at the embassy when she got the call from her sister. Now, nine years later, she has hurt Simon Camden in a fight for her life. But what happens when her father is arrested and she is sent to live with the Camden's because all the group homes are full? Will this young girl be able to find her way in the world now that she is free from her father? And will she be able to find the mother she hasn't seen since she was four years old? And what will the Camden's think when her mother reunites with her with the help of the FBI? Will she finally be able to put old feelings behind her to begin a new life? Will she have a better future now that she is living with the Camden's? And will her mother be found?

Tabitha Smith:

Hi, my name is Tabitha Smith and I am thirteen-years-old. When I was four-years-old, my father took me from my aunt's house. I know that I wasn't the only child, but maybe because I was the oldest he took me instead. When my father was doing well with my mother, they had three children. I was four, my sister Arena was two and my sister Ariela had just been born almost six months before I disappeared.

My father, Marc Smith, was a construction worker and he knew that if he took off with me that people might think he was moving out of state for part of his job. When my mother found out that Marc had me, she went ballistic; at least that was what was on the news when I heard she was trying to find me. But when Marc took me, he never thought he would ever encounter the Camden's and any of their friends. If he had, he never would have taken me, but he didn't, so here we were right now.

Now we were here, so all we had to do was stay alive. Marc was not going to let me go without a fight. And that is how Simon got involved with all of this. At the age of thirteen, I was about to learn a powerful lesson in warfare, whether it be my own war, or that of someone else. But it didn't matter, because Simon got caught in the middle and Marc didn't care who he hurt in order to stay out of jail and in possession of me.