“Has that ‘curl up with hot chocolate and read’ feel to it.” ~*~*~ Monica doesn't believe in life after death. Obligations, certainly. But, after her husband's death, there hasn’t been much ‘life’ to speak of. Just her kids, her farm, and the man who rents it to run his business, Marshal. She decides to change that. It won’t be like it was the first time. Nothing could be like it was with Jason. But she didn’t quite anticipate how different the dating world had become. The more she learns, the more panicked she becomes until she literally runs from her first date . . . and directly to Marshal. She was just looking for someone to ease the loneliness. What she found was a friend she’d already learned to lean on. But can Monica let go of her picture-perfect memories and embrace a new dream? With a new man?

A boy that's bullied at school, and abused at home struggles to find where he belongs. After meeting two people he could possible call friend, the story starts to unfold, and strengthen the bonds between them, but will it be enough to hold them together till the end, or will they all fall apart when it gets to rough? Prologue: It was the night that changed my life forever. It all started, the night of a meteor shower, the sky streaked with fire, and a specifically strange stone that fell from the stars, practically in my back yard! I don't know what I was thinking as curiosity took over, I wound up finding the stone from space, then getting some magnetic pulse from it till my hair stood on end, and waking up with pitch black hair in the morning. I was feeling like I stuck my finger in a light socket, when I had awakened. No big deal right? But maybe I am getting ahead of myself... Let me start from the beginning...