These stories do not belong to another century.

They unfold in houses with family photographs on the walls, schools filled with noise, hospitals, farms, quiet streets and communities where everyone believes they would notice if something were terribly wrong.

Often, they do not.

The children and adults in these novels live somewhere in the contemporary United States, but the exact pin is rarely the point. Move the house to another state, change the school colors, rename the road, and the story remains possible. Harm does not belong to one region. Neither does courage.

These books ask what happens behind ordinary doors, what survival looks like when rescue is imperfect, and how one person can become home for another when home has failed.

River’s Rowan
When tragedy strikes a small
town, a grieving father strikes back by
kidnapping the girls who bullied his
son.

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The Storyteller
A girl without a voice begins learning safety through animals, fairy tales and one person willing to wait.


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Broken
A fifteen-year-old girl leaves behind the story of how pain narrowed her world until she could no longer imagine another door.



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Sing Me Home
When a horrific act of violence orphans Aria, she finds herself trapped in an abusive home… until she befriends a mysterious homeless man who guides her to a special ranch.

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Me
After spending her life protecting her younger sister and surviving the family meant to protect them both, a young woman uncovers a secret that forces her to question her history, her loyalties and whether healing means becoming someone other than the person survival taught her to be.


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Holding Home
Inside a house where love and fear have learned to share the same rooms, a brother and sister become one another’s shelter, trying to hold home together while it breaks around them.




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Forget Me Not
In a life emptied of ordinary affection, an eight-year-old girl searches for proof that she can still be remembered, held and loved before silence becomes the only home she knows.


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The Character
When reality becomes too dangerous to name, a ten-year-old girl hides inside the stories she creates, until someone finally enters them with her and begins leading her back toward herself.


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Haven
In a childhood filled with birds, dandelions and secret forts, two sisters make shelter from whatever they can, while one of them begins to understand that love may not be enough to keep the other safe.

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