Comfrey, Wyoming

Against a backdrop of high prairie winds and soaring snow-capped peaks, an uneasy friendship makes its final appeal when the words "Aunt Heidi" and a phone number are found written on the arm of a five-year-old Arapaho child. When Heidi Vogel arrives in New York to open a restaurant, the ambitious young German-born chef could never imagine that six years later, she would be managing a soup kitchen in Wyoming and sharing her home with an abandoned dog and a secretive young woman named Nara Crow.

Book Two of the Comfrey, Wyoming series by Daphne Birkmyer introduces a small army that gathers to support Heidi, guardian to the Crow twins, as she reopens the town's only restaurant and helps Marcela transition to her authentic self.

Maiden Voyage, Book Three of Daphne Birkmyer's COMFREY, WYOMING series, finds twins, Amadeus and Marcela, on very different paths to self-discovery. As their guardian, Heidi Crow, attempts to weave a safety net as original and complex as the twins themselves, she prays it will hold through Marcela's gender affirming surgery and Amadeus's uncertain future in Alaska's lucrative and dangerous fishing industry.

In Black Sheep, Black Sheep, Book Four of the COMFREY, WYOMING series, multiple storylines converge in a tale of fierce family bonds—both forged and tested. After hearing her father’s estranged brother referred to as a black sheep, young Melissa McNabb declares her neurological differences make her one too. The discovery of a deed to fifteen acres down the road from her uncle’s property draws her to Comfrey, where her arrival unsettles Arapaho deputy sheriff, Amadeus Crow.