Eliza Morgan is a 13 year old girl. Eliza's sister, Arabella, is only 2. Eliza's mother, Lacey, is a great woman, with an exceptional talent for baking. They own the Better Batter Bakery in Crosby, Mississippi. The Better Batter Bakery serves only organic ingredients, from farm to table. Crosby has always been a small town, with a population of only 306 people. Therefore, the Better Batter Bakery is one of the top spots in Crosby, but not for long. First, a foreign exchange student arrives, and makes things a lot harder to handle for Eliza. Next, a Starbucks opens across the street! Then, the government decides they want to tear down Better Batter Bakery to build a Music School. Eliza's family could be forced to leave Crosby to find work elsewhere... How far will Eliza go to save Better Batter Bakery? And could it be too far?
After enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister.
For her brothers, learning they have a sister is an unwelcome surprise. Suspicious and reluctant, her brothers see Aria as an outsider, a stranger disrupting the fragile balance of their lives.
For Aria, their home is both a new beginning and a constant reminder of the family that left her behind.
Haunted by the pain of her past, Aria struggles to adjust, her every action guarded and her trust hard to earn.
As her brothers try to understand her, they begin to glimpse the scars she hides and the strength she carries. Little by little, resentment turns to empathy, and the walls between them start to crumble. But just as the siblings begin to find common ground, the secrets and trauma of Aria's old life threaten to tear them apart. Together, they must decide whether they can overcome the shadows of the past to forge a family and whether Aria can finally find a place to belong.