The book is about a father's life as it was before his children were born. As you travel down through the childhood of this father it will take you into the personal life of 7 children and how each one dealt with life's endangering events. You will see children in tragedy and fear. A common characteristic with of such children is guilt and shame with the idea they were the problem. This is not a novel. It is hoped that the reader will see effects of the unseen presence of the God of the Bible. Unknown and unrecognized, sometimes referred to as "the Hound of Heaven", or what this writer calls "God's Unseen Eye". It is the same eye that watched over Jacob's son Joseph, whose brothers sold him into slavery and he ended up in charge of all of Egypt. Read about the road that leads to the hopeful and the hopeless. Jesus said He had come to the poor, the brokenhearted, the captive, the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised. This child became an adult. At twenty-eight years of age the unseen eye of God revealed Himself in the person of Jesus Christ. It was many years before he realized that parts of his life were out of control.