Celina Montoya, newly graduated from high school, finds her world upended by a family tragedy. Devastated by the loss and desperate to escape her grief, she reluctantly accepts a teaching assistant position at a mission school in Old Mexico after learning that her late father was abandoned there as a child. Upon arriving, however, she finds, to her dismay, that, with no college education or experience, she is to be the lead and only teacher for learning-disabled children. Far from home and...

Thirteen-year-old Celina Zagoradniy-Montoya dreams of a different life; a life where her beloved father is alive again, where there's enough food and medicine for her sick brother, and where Mama doesn't have to work so hard. But when an answer to her impoverished family's prayers arrives in a form Celina did not anticipate and doesn't want, the conflicted young girl soon finds herself on a journey of self-discovery, a journey that leads her down a path wrought with fear, pain, and mistrus...

On a snowy December night, a paper angel dangles from a church tree—its fragile wings carrying a child's handwritten wish. In another corner of the season, a young girl presses her face against frosted glass, waiting for a light that will break the silence in her home. At Chanukah, candles flicker in a kitchen where stories are passed like heirlooms, reminding each generation that hope endures. In these holiday tales, hearts are tested, families are mended, and the smallest gestures—a whis...

Broken by rejection, abuse, and fear, 17-year-old Jewish immigrant, Alexei Zagoradniy, after discovering she's pregnant, escapes her abusive husband to protect her child. Terrified of the unknown ahead, Alexei journeys across Texas seeking refuge far from the dangers of her past. Betrayed once, she is unwilling to trust again. However, a soft-spoken Mexican man, with a secret of his own, tries to persuade her to open her heart one more time.