Heartstrings is book 3 of the Nicholas Keating stories. Picking up where Symphony of Sorrow and Joy left off, this story, told by Nicholas, takes the reader through his life from their wedding, through the ups and downs of the early years of marriage in London, where he works in the London Symphony. Rachel, his American wife, is able to get a job working for a magazine. But as they settle into married life, they decide to start a family, despite the fact that Nicholas's sister, Jean has a son with a rare muscle disease that will end his life before he reaches age 20. Nicholas and Rachel have...

Teddy Lyndhurst lives in "tornado alley," the part of the US that is most vulnerable to tornadoes. THey terrify him. At 9 years old, he lives in fear that a tornado will strike while he is at school and his parents are at work. One day when the tornado alarm sounds, he and his mother retreat to the storm cellar. Teddy hides in an old sleeping bag, but suddenly finds himself tranported to another world, one in which unicorns are real and kings and princes will honor a boy his age. Teddy is only there briefly that first time, but every time he has to take refuge from a storm, he finds himself...