Stone Creek

<p><strong>IPPY® BRONZE WINNER ~ Best Regional Fiction Mid-Atlantic</strong></p><p>Geology professor Kate Brandes' story of a woman abandoned by her father an anarchist who blows up dams presents complex environmental issues further complicated by thorny family dynamics.</p><p>Seventeen years ago Tilly Stone (age 13) is left to fend for herself in rural Pennsylvania when her infamous eco-terrorist father disappears under mysterious circumstances. Ever since she's tried to forget the dams they blew up together and forge a new life until her father's return threatens to upend her small-town world and her friendship with the dogged FBI agent still pursuing him. Ultimately as the past and present fuse and blow up with more than one kind of casualty Tilly must choose between the father she loves and her home.</p>