Book Review: Roots of Wood and Stone

Roots of Wood and Stone

by Amanda Wen

Independent Publishers Group

Kregel Publications

Christian | General Fiction (Adult)

Pub Date 26 Jan 2021

I am reviewing a copy of Roots of Wood and Stone through Independent Publishers Group/Kregel Publishers Group:

Sloane Kelley is a historical museum curator who was abandoned at birth, leaving her family and her roots. When a donor drops off a dusty old satchel, she doesn’t expect much from the common artifact, until she finds real treasure inside: a nineteenth century diary.Now she’s on the hunt to find out more.

All Garrett Anderson wanted to do was to clean out his Grandmothers historic, but tumbledown’s farm house attic so he can sell the house to pay for her medical care. She has advancing Alzheimer’s so he can’t afford to be sentimental about the old family home. But Garett finds that his best laid plans come up with two large obstacles, Sloane has fallen in love with both the diaries and the house, and he has fallen in love with Sloane.

A century and a half earlier, Anabelle Collins who was Motherless embarks on a once in a lifetime journey with her Aunt and Uncle, as they settle in the prairies of Sedgwick County, Kansas. The…