Cat Majors' boyfriend, Ty, leaves her beaten and bloody on a Texas Hill Country back road. When Cat hides in the back seat of a pickup truck, she finds herself taken in and cared for by a strong Christian family who homeschool their large family. The Creekmore's beliefs and behavior are as foreign to Cat as if she'd suddenly been dropped on another planet When Ty finds her again, he kidnaps and beats her savagely, and leaves her for dead. Sky Creekmore and family friend, Jesse, rescue Cat. Believing she's in love with Sky, Cat determines to win him away from his wife. While Cat struggles with her problems, her younger sister, Dena, whom she had always protected and cared for, runs away with a pregnant and abused friend. Natasha's stepfather is insisting on an abortion and threatened to cut the baby out himself if she refused. Without Cat's guidance, Dena has to learn to think for and rely on herself as she and her friend struggle to survive an unexpected river flood and other dangers. Cat and Dena, through facing their separate problems, begin to find their way to maturity and the road to accepting God into their lives. Can Dena and Natasha survive their dangerous situation? And will Cat finally find her way to real love, without destroying the Creekmore family in the process?