The Secrets of Lost Stones Author:Melissa Payne 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, and?most heart-wrenching?her eight-year-old son, Chance, to a tragic accident. Haunted by memories and grief, Jess packs what?s left and he... more »ads 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 ?loose end? in need of closure. But Jess isn?t the only guest in Lucy?s large Victorian home. There?s 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 reconciliation?and a warning.Soon Jess learns that she?s 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.« less