Her Harvard-student son just eloped with the First Daughter. CNN is parked on the road to her apple orchards. Secret Service agents have commandeered her country kitchen. The irate First Parents are threatening to have her taxes audited. The President's handsome, tough, ex-military nephew is setting up camp in her guest room. Hush McGillan's quiet Appalachian world of heirloom apples, country festivals, and carefully guarded family secrets has just been flipped like one of her famous Sweet Hush Apple Turnovers. What do you do when your brand-new-in-laws are the First Family, and they don't like you any more than you like them? And what happens next when you find yourself falling in love with the man they sent to unearth all your secrets? From the White House to the apple house, from humor to tears and sorrow to laughter, get ready to fall in love with Sweet Hush.

The sorrows and secrets of Hush McGillen's life are as deeply rooted as the famed Sweet Hush apple orchards her family has tended for more than a century. Delivering the warmth, humor, and unforgettable characters that her readers have come to expect, Smith cooks up a passionate, page-turning story about a surprising, unexpected love.

Inside the closed community of Borough Park, where most Chassidim live, the rules of life are very clear, determined by an ancient script written thousands of years before down to the last detail-and abuse has never been a part of it. But when thirteen-year-old Gittel learns of the abuse her best friend has suffered at the hands of her own family member, the adults in her community try to persuade Gittel, and themselves, that nothing happened. Forced to remain silent, Gittel begins to question everything she was raised to believe. A richly detailed and nuanced book, one of both humor and depth, understanding and horror, this story explains a complex world that remains an echo of its past, and illuminates the conflict between yesterday's traditions and today's reality.

A lullaby which asks animals such as a lizard, monkey, and water-buffalo to be quiet and not disturb the sleeping baby.

Follows five colorful butterflies as they fly from yellow daisies to red roses looking for a place to fall asleep.

Her home and family desecrated by a fire, Justice Peters is whisked away to the House of Lancaster, run by a woman named Sarah and her lover, Samson, who forces the residents to live a life of Old Testament law. Her only possession from her past is an old photograph of the father who had abandoned her before she was born. As the agonizing days turn into months, Justice's memories begin to fade. It is only the visits from an unearthly stranger who makes each day at the House of Lancaster easier to bear, but still burning within her is her desire to one day escape from this vicious cult, seek out her father and destroy him. It is not until she finds her father when she realizes that sometimes one has to live a lie in order to recognize the truth.