It is a dangerous thing to sideline the importance of early childhood discipline. Danny and Mary Heavenson spent seventeen years doing exactly that. They mistook a chilling silence for focus, a violent tantrum for passion, and a grotesque obsession for a harmless childhood quirk. By the time the town square began to whisper, the wall of denial they had built around their daughter was too high to tear down. They went to sleep each night believing they were protecting their fragile miracle from a cruel and judgmental world, never realizing that the world was the one that needed protection from the monster they had so lovingly built.