Stephanie M Sellers

Sky's River Stone Stephanie M Sellers

Six-year old Sprite Sky's skin and eyes suddenly change color due to a medical condition called heterochromia during a harrowing experience when she believes a demon jumped into her body. Add that to being a ravenous foodie, brainy and the only child in a loveless marriage. She calls home Crap Hill. Desperate, she creates a Valentine's Day treat for her bickering parents and orders a normal family, but when her sweet intentions explode she ends up telling her daddy, "I don't know what I'll do next." Only days after her mother's funeral, Sprite is at her wits' end when the church's feral cat colony is declared an emergency and her wily cousins, The Missing Genes, taunt her again. She plans an extreme revenge that is punishable by Law. At the same time Crap Hill is hit with another pile as her one true hero, the only one who ever kept promises, faces due process and she does not want to live with her grandparents. She brazenly takes out on her own to find solutions and is given a parable: To overcome the beating waters, like the river stone, you must have an angel throw you into the sun.