The doors keep opening, but none of them lead home

Anna Snow is still going through the revolving doors of foster care, constantly changing schools and moving from place to place with nothing more than her garbage bag of meager possessions. Her brother is still lost to her somewhere else in the system. In one home, when she tries to defend her foster sister from sexual abuse, the blames fall on her and her foster sister instead. In another, she’s forced to do barn work, milking cows and cleaning stalls or go without dinner. It’s not all bad there, as she joins 4H and learns to show a cow, but when the foster parents choose to adopt one of the other children, and reject Anna as not being good enough, she’s off to yet another place, losing another foster sister she’d grown close to. In her new home she gets involved in a colorguard group, where she discovers something lifechanging: she enjoys performing in front of people. But that doesn’t stop the torment of the ongoing abuse.

New paths are opening before Anna, but none of them are smooth. Will any of them be the road that finally leads her home? Then someone new comes into her life. Or rather, someone from the past returns, when the path is laid for her to return to her birth mother. Is she ready for a reconciliation with a woman she’s never met?

In this fifth book in the “Garbage Bag Life” series Anna is passing through one front door after another, only to find them constantly slammed in her face and being rejected.