"One murder shatters a beautiful family residing in the metro area of Washington DC. When their father is murdered by a drug addict, two sons slowly drift apart, finding themselves on different sides of the law.
Brother and Sister are the youngest children in a large family. When they try to copy the others, they sometimes find themselves in a little trouble. It's Brother's sixth birthday and his older brother's gift is a puppy!
Talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca goes to live with her spinster aunts, one harsh and demanding, the other soft and sentimental, with whom she spends seven difficult but rewarding years growing up.
While spending the summer with their grandparents, on a remote farm in South Carolina, Ben Alderman and his sister Casey uncover a hidden world of magic; a world their grandmother is secretly visiting.