Far From The Tree

'Sometimes, family hurts each other. But after that's done you bandage each other up, and you move on. Together … You've got us now, like it or not, and we've got you.'

When sixteen-year-old GRACE gives up her baby for adoption, she decides it's time to find out more about her own biological mother, and in doing so she discovers two siblings she never knew existed.

There's MAYA, her loudmouthed younger sister, who's quick to search for traces of herself among these not-quite-strangers. And when her adopted family’s problems begin to surface, Maya can’t help but wonder where it is that she belongs.

And JOAQUIN, their stoic older brother. After seventeen years in the foster care system, he’s learned that secrets and fears are best kept close to his chest, where they can’t hurt anyone but him …