Seven-year-old Brandon Hall has been neglected by his mother and abused by the men she keeps. He is removed from the home and taken to the Childers' eighteen-hundred-acre Angus ranch in central Oklahoma. He is shy, afraid, and seemingly scarred permanently by his ugly past. This is Kirk and Katie Childers' first foster child. Will they know how to answer the many questions foster children have? "What did I do wrong? Why can't I stay with my mom? Can she come live here with us?" More importantly, will they be able to transform those scars from his violent past into a special brand of his own? This is the first novel in Eldon Reed's Nornal series, a family saga of foster and adopted children. Look for the next book in the series, Defying Normal, coming soon.