Book excerpt: This book is the story of six unfortunate souls who were dealt unfavorable hands. With all of them suffering from similar afflictions, they decided to be one another's families. The six vowed to support and protect one another, but through the effort of supporting and protecting one another from any and all dangerous along the way, secrets were born. And now these secrets threaten to tear them apart. Now the six find it difficult to escape the secrets of the past on the road to their future.