Stone Creek: A Novel
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ISBN: 0061369217 / Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks, May 2008
Struggling to move on for the sake of his young son, grieving widower Danny volunteers at a charity in upstate New York and falls in love with Lily, a lonely married woman who is estranged from her workaholic husband and longs for a child.
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In the small town of Stone Creek, a random encounter offers two lonely people a chance at happiness.Danny, a young widower, still grieves for his late wife, but for the sake of his five-year-old son, Caleb, he knows he must move on. Alone in her summer house, Lily has left her workaholic husband, Paul, to his long hours and late nights back in the city. In Stone Creek, she can yearn in solitude for the treasure she's been denied: a child.What occurs when Lily and Danny meet is immediate and undeniable—despite Lily being ten years older and married. But ultimately it is little Caleb's sadness and need that will tip the scales, upsetting a precarious balance between joy and despair, between what cannot happen . . . and what must.An unforgettable novel of tremendous emotional heft, Stone Creek brilliantly illuminates how the powers of love and loss transform the human heart.
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