Selected by Amazon's editors as a Best Book of the Month in Literature
& Fiction
In the mid-19th century, Leonie Monroe Russell works alongside her
husband, Junius, an oysterman in Shoalwater Bay in the Pacific
Northwest. At night she continues her father's lifelong
obsession--collecting artifacts and studying the native culture that
once thrived in the Washington Territory.
On her thirty-seventh birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy protruding from
the riverbank bordering her property--a mummy that by all evidence
shouldn't exist. As Leonie searches for answers to the mummy's origins,
she begins to feel a mystical connection to it that defies all logic.
Leonie's sense that otherworldly forces are at work only grows when news
of the incredible discovery brings Junius's long lost son, Daniel, to
her doorstep. Upon his unexpected arrival, a native elder insists that
Leonie wear a special shell bracelet for protection. But protection from
whom? The mummy, or, perhaps, Daniel?
Leonie has always been a good daughter and good wife, but, for the first
time, these roles do not seem to be enough. Finding the mummy has
changed everything, and now Leonie must decide if she has the courage to
put aside the expectations of others to be the woman she was meant to
be.
From award-winning author Megan Chance, Bone River is a haunting,
lyrical tale of passion and identity.
