When Micky Bellsong encounters Leilani Klonk, a disabled girl with a fierce spirit, and Leilani's stepfather Preston Maddoc, who believes that aliens will heal Leilani by her tenth birthday or take her with them, she finally finds the meaning, hope, and purpose in her troubled life, but when the family disappears, Micky, along with a detective drawn to her courage and passion, embarks on a arduous mission, filled with evil and danger, to find them. Reprint.