Stillwater Rising

By Steena Holmes

2014

First Published

3.90

Average Rating

258

Number of Pages

7H52M

Audio Length

Part of Series

Stillwater Bay

Series · 4 books

By Steena Holmes

After losing her son in an elementary school shooting that devastates the tight-knit community of Stillwater Bay, Jennifer Crowne finds herself unable to settle back into her role of perfect stay-at-home mom and committee organizer. Meanwhile, her best friend, Mayor Charlotte Stone, struggles to keep the town together, and Charlotte’s husband, the school principal, may not be the hero everyone thinks him to be. As they try to heal from this irrevocable trauma, Jenn and Charlotte find themselves at a crossroads—within the town and within their friendship. For Jenn, broken and grieving, there is no going back, and she demands that the school be closed so that she can bury the past. Yet Charlotte is equally desperate to hold the town together, fighting the school closure and helping the shooter’s mother regain her place in the community. Jenn and Charlotte’s relationship is put to the ultimate test as each weighs her own interests against the bonds of their friendship.

Avg Rating

3.90

Number of Ratings

1,618

5 STARS

33%

4 STARS

34%

3 STARS

24%

2 STARS

1 STARS

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Author

Steena Holmes

Author · 29 books

NY Times & USA Today Bestselling Author - Steena is the author of the heart wrenching Finding Emma series. Her latest novel - LIES WE TELL OURSELVES - is out October 2020. The Word Game was included in the Top 20 Novels to be Written by Women in 2015 by Good Housekeeping. The Word Game also won the 2015 USA Books Award for Best Fiction and her novel, The Memory Child was a finalist in the same category. Steena Holmes grew up in a small town in Canada and holds a Bachelors degree in Theology. In 2012 she received the Indie Excellence Award. Holmes was inspired to write Finding Emma after experiencing a brief moment of horror when she’d thought her youngest daughter was missing. She currently lives in Calgary with her husband and three daughters and loves to wake up to the Rocky Mountains each morning. ~ LIST OF HER NOVELS STARTING FROM MOST RECENT: LIES WE TELL OURSELVES - OCT 2020 THE PERFECT SECRET - MAY 2020 THE PATIENT - OCTOBER 2019 THE FORGOTTEN ONES SAVING ABBY & ABBY'S JOURNEY THE WORD GAME Stillwater Bay Series: Stillwater Shores Stillwater Rising Stillwater Tides Stillwater Deep The Memory Child & The Memory Journal Finding Emma series: Finding Emma Dear Jack Emma's Secret Dottie's Memories Megan's Hope