We kiss them with rain (First edition.)

Life wasn't always hard for fourteen-year-old Mvelo.

There were good times living with her mother and her mother's lawyer boyfriend.

Now her mother is dying of AIDS and the terrible thing that stole Mvelo's song remains unspoken, despite its growing presence in their shack.

But a series of choices, chance meetings, and Shakespearean comedy-style exposures of hidden identities hands Mvelo a golden opportunity to overcome hardship.