In S.O.L.A.D.™: Soldiers of Light Against Darkness™: The Angelo™ & Angeline™ Chronicles. Angelo™, Angeline™, Jeff and Wiseman J repeatedly step into dangerous situations because somebody needs help. The people being rescued may see the hero arrive, the enemy defeated or the danger disappear, but they do not always see the wounds, fear, exhaustion, loss and difficult decisions that made the rescue possible.

Too often in fiction, somebody dies, the surviving characters cry, attend a funeral, make a passionate speech—and three chapters later everyone behaves almost exactly as they did before the loss. The story acknowledges death, but it never truly acknowledges grief.

A seed does not look like a harvest when you first place it into the ground. Yet hidden inside that small thing is the potential for roots, branches, fruit, multiplication, and seeds for another generation.