Seventeen-year-old Matthew recounts his attempts, starting at a young age, to free himself and his sisters from the grip of their emotionally and physically abusive mother.

Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.

Having been cruelly abused by her mother until the age of sixteen, a young woman numbs the pain with drugs and loses herself until she finds God through the Mormon Church.

Contains the first two books in the The Breathing series; In "Reason to Breathe," high school student Emma Thomas is hiding a terrible secret that has her hiding in the shadows, but when she finds unexpected love that challenges her, she recognizes her own worth; In "Barely Breathing," Emma's secret of her abuse is exposed.