One day Rain decided to cover for Beni and accompanied her to a party, even though she did not like her step sister's friends. Beni's so-called friends took some revealing pictures of her and were blackmailing her for money. Rain accompanied her there so that she can help her sister with any trouble. They are able come up with money, but the people had other things in mind. They attacked Beni and fatally shot her.
After Beni's tragic murder, Rain had more trouble with the girls that Beni hung around with. She got into a fight with the girls and got suspended. During her suspenision, the girls decided an awful revenge on Rain. They tried to set her on fire. When Latisha found out about Rain's misfortune, she came up with a plan. Latisha called Megan and set a meeting between her and Megan. She wanted Megan to take care of her responsibilities and get Rain out of the ghetto. Megan never told her husband, Grant , or her two children, Brody and Allison, about Rain. The only person who knew of Rain's birth was Megan's mother Frances. Megan came up with a plan to get Rain out of the ghetto and to keep the secret. She decided to have Rain live with her mother and to say that she was more or less a charity case. Latisha did not want to give Rain up, but she did not want another child to end up dead.
At first, rain and Frances Hudson did not get along. However, they eventually called a truce between them. Rain even got her grandmother to get a pacemaker to save her from death. Rain was sent to a ritzy school, called Dogwood. Dogwood was a school for rich, blue-blood girls. She really did not get along with the girls in her class, but she was raised to treat people with respect. Then the drama instructor had her audition from "Our Town". She was casted as the lead female part, Emily. At the end of her performance, Rain was approached by a talent scout, whom was friends with her grandmother and received an offer that she could not refuse. She was accepted into a performing arts school in England. At first, Rain did not want to go, but eventually changed her mind. This was mainly because of her mother's older sister, Victoria. Victoria found out the truth of Rain's inheritance and the fact that this African-American women was her niece.
Before Rain made her final decision to move to England and live with Frances' sister and brother-in-law, Richard and Lenora Endfield, she received some devastating news about her adoptive mother, Latisha. Latisha had an ulterior motive for contacting Rain's birth mother. It was true that Latisha did not want her daughter to live the life in the ghetto any longer, but she was trying to save Rain from the news that Latisha had cancer. She moved in with her sister and thought that she could hold the news of her impending death from Rain. She wanted to mask the sadness from Rain after the "deception" that she just learned. With the help of Frances, Rain returned to the only woman that she knew as her mother's deathbed. She got to the hospital in the nick of time, for after Rain got a chance to say goodbye, Latisha went to her final resting place. Her adoptive brother, Roy tried to pledge his undying love for her, but Rain could not shake the feeling that her and Roy grew up as brother and sister for all those years. She loved Roy as a brother and nothing more and wanted the same in return. Rain finally made her decision to go to the performing arts schhool and becoming an aspiring actress.
Rain's story continues in Lightning Strikes, where she lives in England and finds happiness and more unplesantness from her great-aunt and great-uncle. .....