Ronnie Miller

Ronnie Miller is the daughter of Steve and Kim Miller. When Ronnie was younger, she began to play the piano and quickly proved to be something of a prodigy. Ronnie was taught by her father and throughout their childhood they often wrote original compositions together. All of this ended when Steve left the family, first to become a touring concert pianist and later when his marriage failed. Ronnie blamed her father for the destruction of the family and stopped talking to him for three years.

The novel begins with Ronnie being forced by her mother to spend the summer with her father. Ronnie is angry and resentful, spending as little time at her father's house as possible. However, a new arrest for shoplifting and the discovery of a turtle nest behind the house gives Ronnie the reasons she needs to begin talking to her father again. Over...