The Mignon Samuels Trilogy is a sweeping story of family, survival, love, and the legacy we inherit—and choose to transform. Beginning with Reaching Back, Mignon Samuels confronts the secrets, wounds, and sacrifices of the generations before her, discovering that understanding the past may be the only way to reclaim her future. In ReBorn, she faces the consequences of those revelations and the difficult work of rebuilding a life on her own terms. The trilogy concludes with The Substance of Things, where Mignon’s daughters—Madison, Summer, and Cody—must confront the unfinished business of their family’s history while navigating secrets, fractured relationships, ambition, and redemption. Spanning generations, the Mignon Samuels Trilogy explores the powerful ties between mothers and daughters, the cost of buried truths, and the courage it takes to break inherited cycles. Some legacies are passed down. Others must be rewritten.