Andrew, a thirty-two-year-old longtime undergraduate who cannot hold a job, gets married and embarks on an attempt to get his life together, but the real test of adult responsibility comes when Isabel dies and he must take charge of her sons and fifteen-year-old foster daughter--a challenge fraught with temptation.
Pansy, newly saved and released from prison, Jordan, a girl with an adventurous imagination, and Miss Amylee, Jordan's stepgrandmother, form an unlikely trio as they find themselves emeshed in the struggles and capers of their neighbors.
The journals of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy who lives with his father and emotionally and physically abusive stepmother and her children after the death of his own mother years ago.
Twelve-year-old Halley sees her family torn apart when her father gives her teenage stepbrothers antique flintlocks, which begins an escalating argument between her parents about the dangers of guns.
Gerald, a teenager who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, must face the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.
Teenage Gerald, who has spent years protecting his fragile half-sister from their abusive father, faces the prospect of one final confrontation before the problem can be solved.
Emily finds it is impossible to like her new stepsister. Before long Emily is living in total fear of her. Then Emily learns that her stepsister wrote in her diary that she murdered someone!.
