When two elderly ladies find a girl in a ditch, all they wanted to do was help. Cold, shaking, hurt, and scared, they take her home to find out who she is and where she belongs. But she's not talking. Is she mute or just afraid? Keeping her too long brings in the authorities. Social Services becomes involved. Detectives are called in to find out about the runaway. But she wasn't a runaway, Nina threw her away – and only Nina knows her story and why she's crippled and scarred. Will the detective find out the real story? Will Rosie find the home she so desperately seeks?

RUNAWAY tells the fictional story of just one of thousands of girls who disappear yearly.