Glendy Vanderah – Where the Forest meets the Stars
In Glendy Vanderah’s debut novel, Where the Forest Meets the Stars, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to trust and how to love again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with cancer, Joanna Teale throws herself into her graduate research work on nesting birds in rural Illinois but her solitary routine is disrupted by a mysterious young girl who turns up barefoot and bruised. The girl says her name is Ursa and she claims she was sent from the stars to witness five miracles. Joanna agrees to let her stay, at least until she learns more about the child, and she enlists her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash to help. The three form an incredible bond and as Ursa approaches her fifth miracle, her dangerous past catches up with her.