by LUANNE RICE

With nearly 18 million copies in print of her New York Times bestselling novels, author Luanne Rice is firmly established as a writer who delivers moving, character-driven novels that resonant deeply with a varied and ever-increasing readership.

Now in LIGHT OF THE MOON, Rice brings to vivid life one of the most stunning natural landscapes she has ever portrayed—the fabled French Camargue—in a moving novel about a woman in search of herself and her family’s history, and how sometimes to find your way home you must travel far away. 

LIGHT OF THE MOON opens as Susannah Connelly travels from the Connecticut shore to the light-infused salt marshes of the French Camargue. It was her mother’s dying wish that she see its famous white horses and find a mysterious saint linked to her family’s history.

An accomplished anthropologist, Susannah is suddenly adrift in the wake of a failed love affair and the loss of her mother, seeking only time alone to dig deeply into the personal archeology of her own life.

But amid the endless silvered marshes, she will find a lonely man, his wounded daughter and a part of herself she hadn’t known she’d lost. She will find herself embraced by a circle of strong and passionate women bound together by their abiding faith in the saint Susannah seeks.

Yet old secrets swirl within the fog-shrouded landscape, betrayals that may be beyond the power of any saint, or supplicant, to repair.
           

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