The 11-year-old daughter of a woman who has been battling cancer for years plots together with her best friend a way to escape from eventually having to live with her harsh and conservative aunt after her mother dies.

Daisy Winters is about an eleven year-old girl's unconventional, yet deeply loving relationship with her mother and what happens when this essential mother/daughter bond is harshly broken. Along her journey, including her quest to discover her father, the courageous, resourceful, precocious Daisy learns how to embrace every moment with determination and an unrelenting belief in herself .—Jane Badler