Living in Secret/Esoterica

In the original 'Gathering The Dreamcatchers' companion novels Amelia runs away from a father who has custody to begin a new life and identity in San Francisco LIVING IN SECRET with her mother and her mother's girlfriend Janey. Beginning a whole new life isn't easy, but they do get to live in the funky old place Amelia nicknames The Sunshine House. As she grows up in the sequel ESOTERICA, however, circumstances change and it becomes necessary for Amelia to take the matter of where she's going to live the rest of her childhood into her own hands. Her dad is a criminal, and criminals are supposed to be in jail, aren't they? Amelia is determined to make a legal place for herself with her chosen family once and for all