Kim Baylor is fourteen going on old. Seven years ago her father died and since then her life has gone downhill. Her mother's drinking has taken Kim down some dark roads during the chaos that has become her life. Her goal is simpleto survive and somehow get to a place when she can have some control over her life. Being dumped at her Grandma Haley's farm in small-town Manitoba isn't part of that plan and at first she's furious, but life starts to change. Kim finds life on the farm is anything but dull, with paranormal sightings and the legend of Rawlings Mannakee's lost gold. She befriends Jammer, Haley's adopted cat, and together they set out to understand the mysterious events at the farm, and solve the mystery of the missing Mannakee gold while she begins to heal from her mother's destructive drinking.