This book is a story of dominance and sensitivity, love and betrayal, depression, addiction, and mental health struggles. It is a book of grief and death, with hope sparked quietly-in the natural world, and in family pain transmuted across generations.

Sarah Susanna Wood grew up in Richardson, TX and received a B.A. in Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in English Literature from North Texas State University. She is an essayist, fiction writer, and poet living in The Woodlands, Tx. Her work has appeared in Book of Matches, Elizabeth Ellen's Hobart, The Raven's Perch, and Strophes quarterly newsletter, published by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.