This touching true story is about nine children abandoned by their mother and then left alone by an abusive father. Anna-May and her sister, Shirley, had to protect and bring up their siblings without help. The book begins when a 16-year-old French girl meets a 32-year-old man and is raped. There was a new baby every year. Mother eventually abandoned her nine children, unable to sustain the abuse. Father placed the children in an abandoned house in a rural area from May to December. They could have perished, but for the Lord looking out for them. A good Samaritan called the authorities,...