Book excerpt: Lila Brennan and her two siblings travel across the vast frontier to find a place where they can belong, a place to call home. Dying of starvation, they are stumbled upon by kind strangers who invite them to join their isolated town. Having selflessly cared for her younger sister for the past decade, will Lila be able to step out from behind the shadow of her charismatic sister and notice her own chance for love?