An untimely death -- A knight in shining bell bottoms -- The power of love -- My pa -- Love interrupted -- Agent of change -- Bull's eye -- Run! -- Fugitive -- Girl, interrogated -- Where there's love, there's a BMW with heated seats -- New roles, new rules -- Escape to art school -- The hospital blues -- Search and rescue -- Disappearing act -- Father-daughter road trip -- Rebound man -- The great escape -- Love, actually -- Shooting stars (or birth stories) -- PTSD -- Crash and burn -- Return to Redfish Lake

The author explains how her love for the outdoors--and her journeys to natural landscapes in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska--became her only source of redemption after suffering sexual abuse from her stepfather for more than six years