THE STONE ANGEL

Stella Boyd is a successful journalist who reports from some of the worlds most exciting and dangerous places. She's young and independent, and 'home' is wherever her work takes her. She has her lie under control.
Then an urgent fax arrives and six words bring her world crashing down.

Your father is missing at sea.

Within days, Stella is back in the small Tasmanian fishing village where she grew up. She hasn't been to Halfmoon Bat for fifteen years and she doesn't want to face the memories that await her - or deal with the long-hidden failures of her controlling father, and the lost dreams of her mother, exiled in their home by the edge of the ocean.
But as Stella takes part in the search for her father, she finds herself taken back to 1975. The summer she met Zeph, a young man sailing the world alone. The extraordinary summer that ended in tragedy...

In a place of stones and driftwood, where the sea gives and takes away, secrets can't stay buried forever. Stella must confront old anger and pain. Only then can she love and fate being to work together...

Australian Women's Weekly - 'Great Read' Book of the Month April 2006