Maggie Dewan-Smith

Returning from Afghanistan, Jessica, a Spec OPS Marine, finds herself in a war she never imagined and discovers middle America suburbia has changed when her thirteen year old sister, Aimee, is abducted by sex traffickers.

Ava has lived a charmed existence, shopping, lunching with friends, classes. Bobby, the love of her life, has taken excellent care of her. When he suddenly dies, she ends up destitute on a new journey of which she never dreamed.

After suffering a heart attack, a single father landscaper hides the fatal prognosis from his teenage son and instead enlists him in the landscaping business to try to teach him to be self-sufficient.