Outrun the dark

A four-year-old boy is dead. His eight-year-old sister, Billyjean, is accused of murder. Here is the story of Billyjean thirteen years later---the powerful portrait of a young woman's journey from madness back to reality.

Billyjean has returned home after thirteen years in a mental asylum. She has listened carefully to her kindly, patient psychiatrist about what to expect. She looks at her new life with a unique, completely personal logic, and the clarity of a child discovering a new alphabet. But understanding, for Billyjean, is a matter of the most urgent necessity, for someone is determined to send her back to the asylum---or silence her some other way....