Janel Campbell lost her mother when she was eleven years old. Along with stories of her own life, Janel weaves together the backdrop of her mother's life, from Idaho to Los Angeles, to Utah, to Seattle, to New Jersey, and back to Kent, Washington-a path that eventually led to her mother's brutal murder on March 8, 1961. Mary Kelley Campbell was a witty, high-spirited Irish girl, a devout Mormon, a compassionate Christian, and the mother of six children. The confessed murderer, a member of Mary's church, was a Lennie-type Of Mice and Men, a strong, lumbering, simple-minded man oblivious of his actions and desperate to please. The crime was labeled by King County prosecutors as "...one of the weirdest murders in the annals of the Pacific Northwest." With Mary's legacy banished for nearly sixty years by the pain and circumstance of her death, Janel has quelled the fears she had to face in order to bring her mother's tales of betrayal, heartache, love, and forgiveness to Mary's progeny, and to the world.