After a horrible accident with her mother, thirteen year old, JoHanna Flynn is left as an orphan in the UK, where she doesn't belong.
As a result of said accident, JoHanna has no where else to go, with no hope left at all. She has no family anywhere else; her mother was the only one still around.
Eventually, she is put into an orphanage and is almost certain she will never get adopted, because almost no one would wish to adopt a teen; everyone prefers young children so they can see them grow up and wear frilly dresses and bows.
But on her fourteenth birthday, she received a gift she would've never even imagined...