Stone Heart

Hailed for her powerful storytelling gifts and her poignant renderings of love's many facets, Luanne Rice has enchanted millions of readers in her twenty-year career as a novelist. Now her fans have a chance to rediscover one of her acclaimed early works,Stone Heart, which has been unavailable for a number of years. Possibly her most stirring and complex portrait of the fragile bonds of family and home,Stone Heartbrings readers home to the Connecticut shore. Stone Heartbegins with reunions, as archaeologist Maria Dark takes a hiatus from her international fieldwork. On the banks of Bell Stream, a magical place where she, her sister Sophie, and their brother Peter, spent their childhood, Maria discovers that much has changed in her hometown, and in her family. Sophie's marriage is filled with secrecy, but Maria's mother can only turn a blind eye to frightening warning signs revealed by Sophie's children. As she tries to understand the history that led her sister to these straits, Maria must also examine her own marriage as it draws to a bittersweet close. A tender and mesmerizing work,Stone Heartreveals the depths of trust that bind life's most precious ties. As never before, Luanne Rice inspires us all to look love squarely in the eye and never let it go. The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your reading of Luanne Rice'sStone Heart. We hope they will enrich your experience of this captivating novel.Rice, Luanne is the author of 'Stone Heart', published 2005 under ISBN 9780553587821 and ISBN 055358782X.