From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice comes a long-awaited opportunity for readers to discover an acclaimed early novelone of this cherished storytellers most powerful and complex portraits of the fragile bonds of family and home.STONE HEARTNomadic archaeologist Maria Dark is returning home again to the Connecticut shorea magical place where she, her sister Sophie, and their brother Peter spent their childhood on the banks of Bell Stream. After fifteen years away, Maria hopes that she can rediscover the joy and optimism of her youth in the arms of her family. But things have changed. Marias siblings and her mother have weathered difficult times...and Sophie and her children are not as happy as they seem. Now Maria will embark upon an emotional journeynavigating the memories of a tender pasttoward the truth at the heart of her family and the chance for a new beginning. A remarkably graceful and intuitive novel, Stone Heart reveals the depths of faith and love that can mend lifes most fragile and precious ties. As never before, Luanne Rice inspires us all to look love squarely in the eye and never let it go.