Twelve year-old Aura Lee runs away from foster care to find her only living relative, PawPaw. Since her parents death in an accident, even in her dreams she can't picture their faces, or hear their voices or the songs they wrote. Maybe living up in the mountains with her great-grandfather will help her remember. She allows seven-year old Jimmy Frank, another foster child, to tag along because they both know he is being moved again for bad behavior. But the Tennessee mountains are vast and frightening and they return and hide in her old house, even though the social workers are likely to look there. Then she recognizes a song on a country station. A song her father wrote. Someone has stolen it Someone she and her parents thought they could trust. It is up to her to set the record straight.