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. 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? More importantly, will they be able to transform those scars from his violent past into a special brand of his own?

Is a child's potential determined by social class or skin color? Kirk and Katie Childers believe that every child has a special brand, put there by The Almighty, and specific to that child alone. They see their foster son, Thorne Barrow, as no exception. Katie and Kirk come to recognize the budding possibilities in this child and work to polish his trademark gift. But some in his birth family are trying to eliminate those possibilities. Some bridges may have to be burned. Can this young ghetto bully ever realize his full potential? Must we be bound by our heritage?