Writing about family with a poignant intensity, bestselling author Deborah Smith draws on her Georgia roots to create the story of a New York artist and a modern Southern woman whose fates are about to entwine...

Dirt-poor, sensitive as poets, and proud as kings, the Powell family has lived on a Georgia mouhtaintop for generations. Then, during the 1960s. young Ursula Powell's father convinces the Tiber family, owners of evewthing in nearby Tiberville, to commission a huge iron sculpture of a bear for the town. Decades later the.strange sculpture -- reiected by the townspeople and left to rust on the Powell farm--symbolizes a family's failure and thwarted dreams. But, unknown to Ursula,it is now worth such a huge fortune that the artist's embittered son, Quentin Ricconni, is coming to reclaim it...and to change everything Ursula believes about the past, the choices that break a heart, and the redeeming powers of art and love.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25