From Windy Ridge to the Flint Hills

In the Spring of 1860, Kelly Stolter lives with her parents who love her and her younger sister and brother on their horse ranch in Southern California. Her father decides to ride along to Arizona help an old friend out of a tough jam and a month later Kelly's mother dies of pneumonia.

The pressure builds as the younger children want answers about what they are going to do and how they are going to survive. Kelly's strong façade in the daylight dissolves into salty tears in the darkness of ...