After a lifetime of hardship Jessica Thornton finally has the life shes dreamed of a new marriage to a realtor with burgeoning success a daughter whose athleticism has won her a scholarship to college and a freshlysecured grant from her bank to finally complete her own higher education. Her life today is a complete reversal from the nottoodistant past when the death of her first husband left her penniless and desperate to provide for her thennewborn child. But after the murder of her childre