Carved in Stone

<p>Marissa Rideout was an 'unexpected' child. Born fifteen years after the youngest of her three brothers her early years are that of a spoiled princess. </p><p>Everything changes when her father suffers yet another in a series of strokes followed by the deaths two years apart of her two oldest brothers both killed in Vietnam. </p><p></p><p>A distracted and grief-stricken mother and a toxic relationship cause her to make choices that lead to consequences the teenager could never have foreseen.</p><p></p><p>Many years later after a life of misery she yearns to reunite with her mother and her brother's four children. Plagued by doubt and guilt she takes the first tenuous steps but can a family heal from years of estrangement a generation gap addiction and the tragedy that tore them apart?</p>