Alice Power didn’t have a happy childhood. A mother who drank, a sadistic stepfather, filth, poverty, drunken antics of relatives and neighbors. And at sixteen, young Alice lived through a tragedy after which she ran away from home. She had no one to turn to for protection, and she decided she would be alone forever. But fate gave her a chance encounter with Kevin Bradley, who was able to gradually melt the icy shell of hopelessness and despair in Alice’s soul...