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In a contemporary family saga set in San Diego, God's healing hand refines a husband and wife through a fatal fire that ultimately serves to re-ignite their passion for their marriage.

Relates, in a series of poems from different perspectives, the events and aftereffects of an intruder's violent attack on a family.

Desperate for a place to belong with her father in prison and her mother dead, teenager Kenny Lugo finds a less-than-idyllic home with her Aunt Glo, her father's struggling girlfriend, and her children, until she finds redemption from an unexpected source following the killing of a college girl in the house next door.

In "Track the man down", Ben Dunn's fate is immediate hanging on capture. "Valley of the Wandering River" tells of Dave Chant's mistaken belief that it is possible for a man to go home again.

Seventeen-year-old Sandro, having always lived in poverty with his mother in a wealthy ski resort town, finds his life transformed when the father he has never met suddenly returns and wants to be part of the family.

It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn's shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the night. Seven-year-old Calli Clark is sweet, gentle, a dreamer who suffers from selective mutism brought on by tragedy that pulled her deep into silence as a toddler. Calli's mother, Antonia, tried to be the best mother she could within the confines of marriage to a mostly absent, often...

Thanks to a mutual friends's invitation, two families meet in a luxury villa in Spain and discover their room is overbooked, igniting old passions and tensions.

Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and carpenter in London. He reads the world a little differently from most people and has trouble with such ordinary activities as lying, deciphering expressions, recognizing faces. Verona is thirty-seven, confident, hot-tempered, a modestly successful radio show host, unmarried, and seven months pregnant. When the two meet in a house that Zeke is renovating,...

Three sisters gather at their childhood home, thinking they've put the past behind them. Caroline Renwick and Joe Connor were pen pals as children--until the teenaged Joe learned the truth of his father's death. After years of silence, Caroline still feels a connection, but she wonders if Joe holds the key to her family's healing--or it's destruction.