Hearts of Glass

Ford is a traumatized former child model. Cassie is the epitome of DIY punk with a life full of poverty and pain serving smoothies at the Orange Julius. Finally there is Jenny, a young preppy with talent and dreams held back by a society not designed for women like her. As their lives intersect in the late 1980's at the Fox Valley Mall in Aurora, Illinois, there will be love, confusion, and dangerous adversaries with wealth and power. Ford, Cassie and Jenny just have each other. Will it be enough? How do fragile hearts of glass survive in the real world?

Ford Callahan thought the hardest part was over. He and Cassie survived everything that tried to break them! Their pasts, the people who hurt them, and the fear that love might not be enough. But as the holidays close in, chaos at the mall, buried trauma, and ghosts from before threaten the world they've built together. Set in late-1980s Suburbia, Hearts of Glass: Fade Away and Radiate is a story about first love, found family, and the courage to believe in happiness. Facing it all-will their hearts fade away or radiate?