Things like kidnappings don't happen in Meander. I mean they never had up until little Leedie Ann Alcott disappeared last summer just before my ninth birthday. The kidnapping hit me, Kiley Mulligan Culver a lot harder than most kids in town because dad and I live out on what is left of the old Alcott plantation. Losing Leedie Ann was like losing someone in my own family. Kiley has just seen Leedie Ann in the window of the old Alcott mansion, so why wont anyone admit she's back?