Tessa's life has been a lot of things. Easy isn't one of them. Whether abandoned at a young age, or an orphan, it's all the same to her. She's had to make her own way in an America struggling through The Great Depression.

She tramps the lines to The Sunnydale Children's Home, shoes lace-less and chip bundled carefully to her shoulder. The home is crowded, but she worms her way into a room with Eddie, a boy who "Don't move or talk."

Tessa bungles relationships, finding it easier to interact with Eddie. She cares for him, carves a friendship with him. In the process she begins to mend, exchanging nails for brass buttons, and her "old rot sweater" for hope.

Life is a funny thing, full of surprises and never as "happily ever after" as the fairy tales. Tessa wrestles through with more spit flying than a spitbug, more gumption than crickets on a hot summer night. The trials are many, the triumphs greater. Time spent with Tessa and Eddie will not soon be forgotten.

A Broken Feather is a story about finding God and purpose in hopelessness. Serema has been trained as a warrior since she was a young girl. After losing an unfair challenge, she is expelled from training and rejected by her family and village. As she is considering ending her life, as is expected of her, she discovers a broken feather. Thinking about a feather, she is inspired to find a new purpose.

Sheila doesn't tend to make mistakes, but this time she's made one, a really big one. Faced with a premature death at the hands of a murderous con group, she takes her nephew's souped-up Chevy Malibu, and escapes to her friend's California home. Along her journey, she has to learn to live again, to learn to trust again. But first she has to survive. Not known for her bravery, can she find the courage she needs to unravel the unanswered questions and fight The Happily Ever After Company?