She has become a legend: brilliant, personable, and passionate. During the time of the Raj in India, she began to uncover a custom where children were "married to the gods" and trained for a life of cult prostitution. With a mixture of outrage and heartbreak, she began to uncover the facts for the government. Later, the Indian government made this custom of giving babies and children to this cult prostitution illegal.Until her death in 1951, she gave fifty years of her life to rescuing children from dangerous situations. Against difficult circumstances, she and her colleagues provided a safe home for these children in Dohnavur in South India. Amy Carmichael, Christian missionary, social reformer and author of thirty-five books, once described herself as a "wild-bird child, and in no wise tame." Her life proved her self-observation to be quite accurate.For this biography, Derick Bingham has researched Amy Carmichael's letters to try to uncover the heart and conscience of this self-effacing legend. In doing so, he has found spiritual gold.