"Never expect anything," is the motto of 15 year old Kit. And with an absent mother, a clown of a father, and an aunt for a soon to be stepmother, who can blame her for her cynicism? Everything Kit thought would happen has failed to pass, poor child. And her life is a mess for it.

So, when three kids roar into town in a beat up old Cadillac, Kit doesn't give them more than a passing thought. But, maybe she should have...

Chapter One-Never Expect Anything