Fourteen-year-old Emma had drifted along with her mother for as long as she could remember, until things went wrong. Now Emma has a new family, her foster parents, Jude and Tome and their children, Travis, Amy and James.
Life is settled, she's about to start at a new school, and living in the country she has all the space she's dreamed of. She's been working hard with Jude on the farm, tending the passionfruit vines. Sometimes she works with Tom at the market.
Then things turn ugly. Standover men have been harassing Tom, turn over his fruit stall, slashing the tyres on his Land Rover . . .
