β Scribed by Payne, Melissa
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A soul-stirring novel about the bonds between mother and child and the redemption that comes with facing the past and letting it go.
Thirty-two-year-old Jess Abbot has lost everything: her job, her apartment, andβmost heart-wrenchingβher eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident. Haunted by memories and grief, Jess packs whatβs left and heads for the small mountain town of Pine Lake, where she takes a position as caregiver to an eccentric old woman.
A rumored clairvoyant, Lucy is strange but welcoming and immediately intuits Jess as a βloose endβ in need of closure. But Jess isnβt the only guest in Lucyβs large Victorian home. Thereβs also Star, a teenage runaway with a secret too painful to share. And the little boy with heart-shaped stones, who comes with a hope for reconciliationβand a warning.
Soon Jess learns that sheβs not the only lost soul running from the ghosts of the past. She and Star have been brought together for a reason: to be saved by the very thing that destroyed them.
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