Four orphans who met as teenagers vowed to be a family. In adulthood they reunite at a film party in London and reevaluate their lives and commitments.

When two orphans break through the magic shield that is keeping an extraordinary family of monsters safe from those who would do them harm, they are all put in grave danger.

Twelve-year-old Joshua is an orphan who lives in an unusual family where his eighteen-year-old aunt also acts as his mother.

A young woman realizes that her wilderness home with her grandfather is not all she longs for as she grows older.

Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is forced to leave his new home. He rides lonely mountain passes and works on dusty cattle drives until he finds a job breaking horses. Then he meets Liza Hetrick, and in her eyes he sees his future. After establishing...

"Sarah Yoder belongs to a Plain community in Oklahoma, but her days are far from simple. Life suddenly gets complicated when a series of tragic events unfold, leaving her in charge of the household. Alone with her younger siblings, Sarah is exhausted but finally at peace. Then she nearly runs over a small boy with her buggy -- and somehow finds herself sheltering two more orphans." --Page 4 of cover.

The Alden children go to care for their Aunt Jane on her ranch and discover a new mystery as they try to bring her out of her doldrums.

"An orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive father John Cole and his brother-in-arms Thomas McNulty, this odd little family scrapes a living on Lige Magan's farm with the help two freed slaves, the Bougereau siblings. They try to keep the brutal outside world at bay, along with their memories of the past. But Tennessee is a state still riven by...

For nearly one thousand years, the Core Empire has held together thousands of star systems and billions of citizens. But a coup attempt has broken the empire into pieces. For Cadet Hugh Cascade, this is but a history lesson, but one truth has never been shared with him: Hugh Cascade is an heir to the throne-perhaps the last-and the traitors will do anything to eliminate him. Before they can, Hugh must make the decision of a lifetime: To take the Test...

Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents' footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence Earth and another planet are at stake.