When mean and angry Judd, who has never known kindness, takes to drinking and mistreats his dogs, Marty discovers how deep a hurt can go and how long it takes to heal.
Vacationing on a farm in West Virginia near the haunted glass factory where crazy old Irwin Loop used to make marbles, eleven-year-old Jenna decides to use the place to shock her mute younger brother into talking.
The story of a half-brother and sister, Lark and Termite, leaving in West Virginia during the Korean War. Both children were given to their Aunt Nonie by their mother. Termites father dies in the Korean War and Lark doesn't know who her father is.
Single mother Zoe McCourt must struggle against man and magic when she becomes the last of her friends to follow the clues that will lead her to the key of valor which when combined with the keys of light and knowledge will free the Daughters of Glass, three Celtic demigoddesses imprisoned by an evil sorcerer.
Eleven-year-old Marty, having acquired his beloved beagle Shiloh by blackmailing his drunken, abusive neighbor Judd, worries that Judd might yet try to get revenge, but the situation is resolved through an act of kindness.
