Sample Sunday: An Excerpt From Seed

[image error] When Abby came home from school there was a lump on Charlie's bed. Buried beneath a set of Spongebob sheets and matching comforter, Charlie had taken up her favorite position of sleeping with her butt in the air. She'd done it since she was a baby; elbows pulled into her chest, her knees pressed into the mattress, her rear end flying high and her thumb stuck in her mouth. Abby didn't have to see her to know that was her sister's exact position.

She dropped her backpack next to the leg of the ...