Chapters 1 through 3 Summary and Analysis

In Chapter 1, Cathy Glass got a call from Jill from the fostering agency. There was a child that needed a foster home. She had five carers in the last four months since she first came into the system. Cathy had two children of her own, Adrian, 17, and Paula, 13. Lucy was 15 and a foster child but after two years had become a member of the family. Lucy had come to Cathy hurt and distrustful. But now two years later she was a typical teenage girl. Cathy had been a foster parent for twenty years but this new girl sounded like quite a challenge.

Cathy met Jill the next day at the agency. They went into a meeting room where there were about a dozen people already in attendance. Must be quite a case, Cathy thought to herself. Dave Mumby, the...