Early in the book, we learn Pattyn is challenging her beliefs and the Mormon church, questioning her place in the world and how much control she has over her own body and mind. She eventually starts dating a boy at school after he discovers her passion for using the Utah dessert for target practice. Pattyn starts to question and challenge her parents' authority by lying, talking back, and eventually drinking and contemplating having sex with her boyfriend, which ended with her father walking in on her drunk with loose pants.
After discovering her mother is pregnant with a seventh child, this time a boy, Pattyn's father sends her off to her Aunt Jeanette's farm where Pattyn learns what it feels like to be liked and loved unconditionally.
Falling in love, learning what a good physically exhausting work day feels like, and figuring out personal beliefs, Pattyn doesn't want to go back to Utah to finish senior year of school, but she must, and then can go wherever the wind brings her, which is into the arms of Ethan, her light in a dark place.
Upon return home, she finds life had shifted, but not for the better. Abuse has shifted from her mother to her favourite sister, the elders of The Church pressure her and her family, and incident after deadly incident, Pattyn vows to take the lives of those who caused her the hell she lives on earth.
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