A collection of poems exploring the feelings and experiences for women during different stages of their life. All women desire love and acceptance, must overcome difficult obstacles and have to stand in the face of those who want to define who we are and should be. These poems give a voice to women that is all their own. A voice that details love, struggle, acceptance and survival. In the end, women must be strong enough to live in a world that sometimes places little value on them and find the strength to discern their true worth from that with which the world tries to label them.

Merryhaven. It's supposed to be a place where troubled teens go when they somehow lose their way. When, like fragile, injured butterflies, they forget how to soar. For a group of teens, Merryhaven becomes the place where Marcus, Glory, Joseph, and Petey learn to heal one another and love one another. They learn that being broken doesn't necessarily mean the end. Sometimes brokenness is just the beginning.