"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato—where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...

"Bruce s abandoned as a mere infant, leaving a future that consists of seventeen foster homes. He becomes influenced by his surroundings, as a war wages for his soul. All seems lost as the cartel takes over his life. He takes everything he has left to the Casino in hopes of a grand wager. Instead his is bust, broke and without hope, that is, until a man in while talks up and asks him if he would like to make a small wager. Bruce loses the wager...