STONE BY STONE

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winner of the 19th Annual National Indie Excellence® Award for Regional Fiction.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A love letter to Western North Carolina all royalties go to rebuilding Chimney Rock NC.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A lie overheard in 1927 reverberates for three generations culminating in its revelation in 2000. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stone by Stone</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a family saga of lost hope duplicity perseverance and redemption. At the heart of it rests Stoneygate Estate several hundred acres of mountain woods and pasture in the foothills of Western North Carolina. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stone by Stone</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a character-driven narrative with a rich emotional core.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In 2000 Meg Bishop an award-winning children's book author from Chicago inherits Stoneygate estate in Western North Carolina. A stipulation of the will demands she reside there for a year before deciding to keep it or sell. As she settles in and reconnects to the land she loved as a child the solitude begins to heal old wounds. At the same time developers are fighting in court to lay claim to the property.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A groundskeeper and a local attorney ingratiate themselves with duplicitous motives. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Meg delves into her great aunt's journals chronicling the life of the Kenyon family through two world wars a flu pandemic and the Great Depression. Much of the tale is told from the perspective of three northern women of different generations all transplanted to the south. As they face trials of spouse abuse miscarriage and loss they find strength to move forward with grace and wit. The Kenyon men challenged to move through trials of betrayal and loss extol the virtues of strength as well as vulnerability</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>May appeal to readers of Jean Thompson Ann Patchett and Nicholas Sparks.</span></p>