That Girl in The Boxcar

A suffocating secret may consume her.

A chance meeting offers salvation.

Will she sink into the dark or rise to the light?Idaho 1925. Desperate and with nowhere to go, Heidi Schlager's life hangs in the balance. Growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father, the exhausted and traumatized teen, eager to flee home, stows away on a train where she encounters an aging hobo. And after the intelligent bookworm recites a poem to her literary companion, she sparks an instant friendship and delights in sticking together.

Riding to a town in Iowa to meet her new pal's sometime-lover, Heidi's unrelenting feelings of despair intrude on the warm friendship developing between the three. Plagued by powerful emotional conflicts, confusing sexual desires, and ghosts from her past threatening to drown her, she struggles with the temptation to give up.

Can this warm hearted-teen with no one to hold on to discover a found family to help her survive?

That Girl in The Boxcar is the sweeping first book in The Reisen historical fiction series. If you like courageous heroines, hopeful themes, and redeeming relationships, then you'll adore Tim Wickenden's tale of self-discovery.