Bone River
Megan Chance
Language: English
Pages: 395
ISBN: 1612184847
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Selected by Amazon's editors as a Best Book of the Month in Literature & Fiction, December 2012
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 37th 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.
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self-righteous anger. “It doesn’t help that you don’t make an effort to show him that yourself.” Junius’s expression softened. He came up to me, pressing to my back, his hands on my hips. “Lea, Lea,” he said quietly. “How many times must I say it? You’re wasting your time. Let the boy go. It will never be right between us. There’s no point in trying.” I looked down into the sink. “Well, I can’t help myself.” He gave me a quick squeeze and stepped away, already dismissing it, letting it fall
the weather would hold for much longer. “If we’re lucky we can make it before the rain.” He led us into the woods, the undergrowth of ferns and vines and salal tangling about our feet, making the way hard. Whatever path Sanderson had blazed was long gone; the only one was that which led to the McInery house on the right. “Perhaps someone who lives here knows of it,” Daniel suggested. Junius shook his head. “If they know of it, it’s too late. If they don’t, I don’t want word getting out.” He
But then I began to remember things, things from the dream, the hair that fell forward to blur my vision as I grabbed up the child—reddish brown, the color of molasses taffy, and my bare feet had been brown and small, not mine. I knew then that the dream was hers, just as they’d all been, that it was her fear and sadness I felt, and she’d wanted me to feel it. The realization startled me. It was impossible, I knew. Only a fancy. Not fact. But it didn’t matter what I told myself, my certainty
them.” “I don’t need to go through all of them. I only need the years before he died. Just when the necklace disappeared. Three years. Four at the most.” “It might be easier to ask Lord Tom.” “Tom didn’t know anything about the mummy,” I said, remembering the day I’d found her, his surprise and dismay and fear. “He was there the day we pulled her out. He would have said if Papa had dug her up before. He told me to rebury her.” “Then perhaps he’d said the same thing to your father. Everyone’s
for long enough that I looked over my shoulder at him. He had turned to stare out the window. “Do you think they would have made it to Astoria in this storm?” he asked. “You don’t suppose they drowned?” “If it began to be a danger, they would have beached the canoe and taken shelter. Lord Tom grew up on these shores. He knows what to do.” “How certain you sound.” “I am certain. He and Junius have traveled in weather worse than this.” “And he thinks nothing of leaving you here alone. With
