About the book: 1998 / Many years ago, the large and friendly Tallchief family took into their home little Lacey McCandlis, whom her dissolute mother drove out into the street, accepting the next gentleman . The youngest of the brothers, Birk, took her under his protection: he protected and protected, consoled and played with her, replacing both his mother and his unknown father. But that was until Lacey was seventeen years old.…