Best-selling author Helen Van Slyke wrote about complex family relationships with romantic elements. Sisters and Strangers is about three sisters raised together who took different paths. They were strangers to each other as adults but come together for their parent's 50th anniversary and discover how far they had drifted apart, yet how closely intertwined were their intimate feelings and perilous fates. The Best Place to Be is the story of beautiful Sheila who is suddenly and shockingly alone. She starts anew—and finds a way to fill the emptiness around her and the aching void within. The books are in readable condition, with no missing pages. The covers and spine are a bit beat up, but are doing their job of keeping the book intact.