Katherine gave birth to a girl after her fiance left her. Her now 16 year old girl named Kathy was in a car crash with her friend Lilly. They could not find Lilly's body so she was presumed dead. So Kathy accidentally killed 2 people in the crash. 9 months later Keith showed up and the truth comes out about what happened the day he proposed to Katherine. It changed Kathy's whole life.
Riley McForriston was 10 when her parents died in a car crash. She was shipped off to her aunt and then as if it couldn't get worse, everything crumbled. Her Aunt Hannah did care whether Riley lived or died, and when Riley called the police while locked in a closet, she was put in a foster home while they tried to contact relatives. There was no one left, she only had the one aunt and her grandparent were dead or in a nursing home. They turned to her God Parents. Christy Neal was the god mother and best friend of the dead Violet McForriston, and she and her husband were the only ones they could turn too.
(Note: Rhett and link don't show up in the beginning until later....)
[NOTE: I wrote this when I was 12. It's not the best,]