"The Essence Of Evil" is fiction, and was influenced by the pristine wilderness and some events and people that lived in the general area that the story is written about. The young girl in the story could be anyone's young daughter; she has courage and a maturity beyond her years. We all know someone that could be her. The serial killer that stalked the author and his three little girls was eventually caught and put behind bars; but that is a story for another time.