title: Broken Promises: When Parents Don't Keep Their Word (Helping Kids Heal Series)
author:  Erainna Winnett 
description: Child education and counseling expert Erainna Winnett brings more than 20 years of experience in teaching, counseling, and raising children to the hot-button issues every child faces today. Helping Kids Heal is a series of activity books written with healing in mind. Each book addresses real world problems children face on a daily basis. Through therapeutic art and writing exercises, kids can express their feelings and learn how to deal with those feelings in appropriate ways. Designed for children ages 6-12, these activity books are meant to be used as a counseling tool to foster a positive self-image and healthy coping strategies and to provide parents, educators, and counselors with tools to assist children as they process and work through some of todays toughest issues. Erainna was born and raised in central Louisiana. The oldest of five children she always yearned to be a teacher and forced her siblings to play school year round. Naturally, she graduated with a teaching degree in 1995 and earned her Master's degree in 2000. Five years later she earned her Education Specialist degree in early childhood education. After fifteen years in the classroom, she moved to the role of school counselor and has never been happier. While serving as school counselor at an elementary school in northeast Texas, she frequently uses children's books as therapy to help her students heal, learn and grow. Ideas for her books come from the students she works with on a daily basis. Her goal, as an author, is to touch the hearts of children, one story at a time. Erainna has written over thirty books designed to guide parents, teachers, and counselors as they help children to become their best self. Erainna lives on a 300 acre cattle ranch near the Red River with her husband, two daughters, three dogs, two horses, and one ill-tempered cat.
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  _She’ll risk anything to save her child…even the truth_
  
  
  It’s taken nine years and a cross-country move, but Audra Valentine Wheyton
  has
  
  
  kept her secrets safe. She’s created the perfect life—a husband who loves her,
  a daughter she adores, and a position as head writer for an award-winning
  daytime soap. When her husband dies suddenly, Audra returns to her hometown
  for the funeral and faces a community that has not forgotten her meager
  beginnings and a man who has never forgiven her for marrying his brother.
  
  
  Jack Wheyton is a successful pediatric neurosurgeon who is about to become
  
  
  engaged when Audra walks back into his life with her daughter. He forgave his
  brother long ago for taking something that had been his, something he hadn’t
  even realized he wanted until it was gone. But forgiving Audra is another
  story…and forgetting her? Near impossible.
  
  
  When a shattering illness strikes Audra’s daughter, she turns to Jack to save
  her child and risks exposing a secret that will cha