Description:

Observe any modern high school at class break, and you'll see lots of kids moving down the halls in a more or less orderly fashion. Some are hiding the desperate secret of abuse. Suppose in that milling throng, we focus on three girls who happen to ride the same school bus. Because all of them live in their own private hell, each recognizes the signs of abuse in the others. Wary, they form a pact--not quite a friendship--and escape to another town where they are thrown into the uncertain, brutal life of the streets. They recognize that so long as they stay together, they survive. A string of near fatal events take them to an old mud-brick place in Dry Wells, Texas called Dunbar's Station run by a man who is the dregs of human life. There, they find the space and time to recover. But . . . what happens if the smartest one starts to unravel? What if they forget they must stick together to survive?