"Miranda Dillon has mastered the art of dialogue. . . . I am hooked!" -Bob Kunzinger, author of The Iron Star: A Father and Son in Siberia and A Third Place: Notes in Nature "Miranda writes from a truthful and honest place, connecting us right where we're meant to live . . . the heart." -Don Andreasen, writer, adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute "Miranda Faye Dillon has accomplished a very rare thing: to look unflinchingly at loss and pain without losing sight of the redemptive value of compassion and love." -Max Ludington, author of Thorn Tree and Tiger in a Trance Some people refuse to break. A closeted gay man befriends an escort. A widower still saves a seat for his wife at sunset. A woman grapples with the aftermath of childbirth. Teenage enemies come together in a ghostly way. Two young women fall in love in a bustling city. Told through a series of short stories, The Unshatterables unpacks trauma, hope, and healing in immersive snippets of humanity and the love that binds us. Unfolding in multiple timelines, in this diverse series of love stories-romantic, platonic, and familial-devotion, affection, growth, and recovery triumph over the many pitfalls of life. True love, in any form, endures. It is unshatterable.