Juliet's parents died when she was young and she never got to experience having a family. She lived a miserable and lonely life. One night at work, she meets a strange man that says he's a reporter and he asks her a few questions. Later that night, the reporter offers to drive her home from work. When Juliet refuses, he kidnaps her and brings her home to be a wife for his oldest son. Juliet slowly loses her sanity as she finally gets a family.

For Ellie Siegfried, her diary is her closet friend and most trusted confidant, viewed more as a little sister than a notebook. For Kai Lang, journaling is only something he does because his therapist advised him to, in order to cope with the anxiety that threatens to overcome him. Through an unexpected and awkward meeting in the library, the two's stories become intertwined. These stories are told through their journal entries, which record the same events, through two very different lenses. But the more they get to know one another, Ellie and Kai discover that they bring things out in each other that they never knew existed. When Ellie befriends Kai's family, her own family struggles come bubbling up to the surface-struggles she'd tried to bury and forget. And although Kai swore to never fall in love, or even make a close friend, perhaps the sanctuary he's needed all along isn't found in a journal, but in the strange and optimistic girl who stole his book in the library.

The third book to the Family Comes First trilogy Time has passed, and now Hunter is seventeen and preparing to graduate from high school. Jimmy is being released from prison, and Julie is excited for them to be a family once again. Traditions start to arise when Hunter meets Ava. Julie believed that everything was going to be different once Jimmy got out of jail, but some traditions never die.

A sequel to Family Comes First by Mason FitzGibbon After Carrie telling the detectives about the abuse Tommy put her through, a search is out for Tommy and Jimmy. Julie is trying her best to keep the family's traditions secret, but the detectives have been in the basement. She gets caught up in a web of lies and has to clear her name so that she isn't charged for murder. Jimmy wants Julie and Hunter back. Julie moves in with Carrie and she tries her best to suppress her anger toward Carrie. The story is told as a mashup of Julie and Jimmy's POV *The photo used for the cover is not mine. If anyone knows the photographer please message me*