Field Mouse: The
Price of Innocence
By
A. E. Lawrence
Taffeta Moonrose is
born a bastard child and raised in captivity like an animal after her mother is
killed. Suddenly set free when her
captor, Charles Willoughby, dies of a heart attack, she is left to fend for
herself in a hostile world and begins stealing food from the towns folks. It is by her cunning and the secluded farm to
which she can retreat that allows her to evade capture for so long.
However, when Matt
and Toby Claybourne arrive in the area on vacation and learn of the wild girl, Toby
becomes determined to find and adopt her.
When they finally do find her and gain her trust, their relationship
changes their lives in ways unforeseen.
Desperate for an
ally in their quest to adopt Taffeta, the Claybournes seek the help of a police
officer, John Hiller. However, they are
not aware that he had raped Taffeta’s mother, Nancy, and is the girl’s
biological father. But the truth is
revealed during the first meeting between Hiller and Taffeta. He is shocked when he realizes that the girl
is his daughter, and when Toby accuses him of rape, he panics, pulls his gun
and accidently shoots the girl.
Taffeta survives
the wound, and the Claybournes are finally granted custody of her.
Hiller is sent to
prison but is determined to break out and track down the girl. In his twisted mind he feels that he has a
right to claim her as his daughter, and he is willing to do anything to have
her.
Although Taffeta
wants to fit in with new life and rules she has never known, there are those
who would ostracize her because she is a social misfit. As she struggles with the restrictions placed
on her by society, her naivety makes her easy prey for boys who take advantage
of her innocence and abuse her sexually.
Although Matt and
Toby do their best to guide Taffeta through her most trying times, they can
only hope for the best as their daughter’s life spirals out of control.
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