Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home. Nancy-or Novalee-is a runaway from her home in Kentucky. She never wanted to go back to the feeling of being depressed again, she ran from it. She heads west, to Nevada. There she finds a whole new family. The Autobots. But things change a year after she joins them because of the Decepticons.