After years of silent suffering, Gale pours her heart out to her mother. One thing is clear: she must journey on a quest to cure the hole in her chest. A story filled with natural landscapes, enticing food, winding homes, and interesting people unfolds before her very eyes. Who knows what else she may discover along the way? An anthology about finding happiness throughout life's toughest times wraps itself in a fantasy novel steeped in fairytales.

In the bonus short story, Anya begins to worry when her father doesn't return from his hunting trip. She must weigh what is worse: to lose her father to the forest, or to lose herself? When she embarks on a hunt for her father, Anya runs from monsters of both the forest and within.