When a devastating tragedy takes their parents from them, the eldest four adult Whittier children must put aside their personal issues and grief to keep the family together and support each other and their two youngest siblings.

While mourning the death of her father, Lois receives a book called "The Manual," a gift left by her father that is filled with advice for her, along with instructions to read a chapter on each future birthday.

Years after her mother killed herself the day of her birth, Seraphine Mayes uncovers a family photograph that raises dangerous questions about her family, her twin brother Danny, and the family's au pair.

Fleeing her family's campsite in the wake of a bear attack that has left their parents dead, five-year-old Anna and her younger brother struggle to survive hunger and the elements in the dangerous wilderness.

This novel is a portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician's wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope's three young children, the stability of life with their preoccupied father, and with Viney, their mother's spitfire best friend,...