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.
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