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.

Forced to return to the small Southern town where she grew up to sell her late parents’ house, Louise discovers that her and her brother’s old grudges pale in comparison to the terror that still lurks within its walls.

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.

Returning to the house where her parents were murdered, mother-to-be Emma Palmer who has never told anyone what she saw the night her parents died, even when she became the prime suspect, is reunited with her estranged sisters who will do anything to keep the past buried.

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.

Torn apart by their parents' death, Theo seeks redemption in the British military during the French Indian War, while his sister makes her way from abusive guardians into France's high society, before being lead to the French battlefield in North America.

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,...

Follow's one woman quest to hike the Pacific Crest Trail as a way to heal following her divorce and a life of destructive behavior.