First Stories

Their hobby was hunting cherries. Not the ones that grew on trees but those of young boys and girls.

A proud and prudish Catholic mom from the suburbs of Pennsylvania, Shawna Lynn McDonnell volunteers to act as a chaperone on the first field trip at her son's new school. But what Shawna doesn't realize is that, on this field trip, she will be the one getting an education; an education in what it means to have power and who, in the new and hellish landscape in which she finds herself, actually has it and whose is just an illusion.

It's not all sweetness and light growing up with your childhood sweetheart.....

Heather lost her father at fourteen in an auto wreck. In later years, she lost a whole lot more.