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Riverstones
In New Zealand in the heady gold rush days of the 1860s, men went missing and were never found. Some drowned, some starved, some simply disappeared never to be seen again. Mary Healey finds herself alone in a new country with six children. After trekking across the province searching for her missing husband Jim, she finally gives up looking for him and discovers a new place to call home. She purchases the Welcome Home Hotel, and posing as a respectable widow, runs a successful establishment with the aid of her three daughters, Annie, Meg, and Kitty. But the past refuses to remain buried and surfaces only to rip open barely healed scars. With the help of a young priest, Mary reluctantly embarks on a journey that is harder than traveling from the other side of the world, a journey of learning to forgive and love again. A story of love, loyalty, and betrayal, Riverstones is a passionate story of a family who learn when all else is lost, love remains.
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Riverstones
In New Zealand in the heady gold rush days of the 1860s, men went missing and were never found. Some drowned, some starved, some simply disappeared never to be seen again. Mary Healey finds herself alone in a new country with six children. After trekking across the province searching for her missing husband Jim, she finally gives up looking for him and discovers a new place to call home. She purchases the Welcome Home Hotel, and posing as a respectable widow, runs a successful establishment with the aid of her three daughters, Annie, Meg, and Kitty. But the past refuses to remain buried and surfaces only to rip open barely healed scars. With the help of a young priest, Mary reluctantly embarks on a journey that is harder than traveling from the other side of the world, a journey of learning to forgive and love again. A story of love, loyalty, and betrayal, Riverstones is a passionate story of a family who learn when all else is lost, love remains.
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Riverstones

Riverstones

by Michelle Kelly
Riverstones

Riverstones

by Michelle Kelly

Overview

In New Zealand in the heady gold rush days of the 1860s, men went missing and were never found. Some drowned, some starved, some simply disappeared never to be seen again. Mary Healey finds herself alone in a new country with six children. After trekking across the province searching for her missing husband Jim, she finally gives up looking for him and discovers a new place to call home. She purchases the Welcome Home Hotel, and posing as a respectable widow, runs a successful establishment with the aid of her three daughters, Annie, Meg, and Kitty. But the past refuses to remain buried and surfaces only to rip open barely healed scars. With the help of a young priest, Mary reluctantly embarks on a journey that is harder than traveling from the other side of the world, a journey of learning to forgive and love again. A story of love, loyalty, and betrayal, Riverstones is a passionate story of a family who learn when all else is lost, love remains.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781503011229
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 11/21/2014
Series: Riverstones , #3
Pages: 428
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.87(d)

About the Author

Michelle Kelly lives in a cute little cottage she calls "The Writery." in Torbay, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. Originally from the Deep South, she moved to Auckland as a teenager, but remains a Southern girl at heart.
The two best things she ever grew are her sons Paul and Mike. These boys were the inspiration for her novel, "Payback", which became a "NZ Post" Finalist in 2008.

In fact, Michelle loves mixing truth with a bit of fiction which makes her friends and family extremely nervous that someday, something they say or do, might end up in a novel.

From the age of five, Michelle knew she wanted to be a writer, but it wasn't until her boys went to school that she thought she'd 'give it a go'. In 1997, she enrolled in a correspondence course and by misinterpreting the assignment wrote her first, accidental, novel. The surprised tutor reiterated the instructions, but his final comment was, "It's not bad; you should try and get it published." It still remains in the bottom drawer in the study, gathering dust.

Not wanting to get locked into one particular genre, Michelle randomly alternates between writing pre-teen fiction, chick-lit, and historical fiction. Her new novel, "Riverstones", a historical fiction based in Central Otago, New Zealand, came to her in a dream.

Michelle hopes to write the movie screenplay of "Riverstones" soon so she can showcase the beauty of the Central Otago landscape to the world.
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