Inspired by the author's haunting real-life coincidence, this fictional story is a close 3rd person account of the tragic life of protagonist Marie Rybicky, a Polish-born nanny living in suburban Chicago. Marie's quirky habits and behaviors are told in careful detail, with vivid visual images, putting readers on edge as the get drawn into the heart-breaking events that forced Marie to go on the lam. Escaping her sordid past brought on by well-intentioned care and feeding of the adored infants she tended, Marie finds herself reliving her earlier years quite by accident...or was it?