An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.

In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises.

The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles. With concerns about the child’s home situation, Jo reluctantly agrees to let her stay—just until she learns more about Ursa’s past.

Jo enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery of the charming child. But the more time they spend together, the more questions they have. How does a young girl not only read but understand Shakespeare? Why do good things keep happening in her presence? And why aren’t Jo and Gabe checking the missing children’s website anymore?

Though the three have formed an incredible bond, they know difficult choices must be made. As the summer nears an end and Ursa gets closer to her fifth miracle, her dangerous past closes in. When it finally catches up to them, all of their painful secrets will be forced into the open, and their fates will be left to the stars.

A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.

After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins’ Wisconsin farm. Here she found solace in caring for her extraordinary adoptive brother, exploring the surrounding wild nature, and gazing at the mystical moon—a private refuge in which she hides from her most painful memories. But ten years later, now twenty-one, Riley feels too confined by the protective walls she’s erected around herself. When a stranger enters her family’s remote world, Riley senses something he’s hiding, a desire to escape that she understands well.

Suffering from writer’s block, bestselling novelist Vaughn Orr has taken to the country roads when he happens upon the accommodating, if somewhat unusual, Mays family. He’s soon captivated by their eccentricities—and especially by Riley and her quiet tenacity. In her, he recognizes a shared need to keep heartbreaking secrets buried.

As the worst moments of their lives threaten to surface, Riley and Vaughn must find the courage to confront them if they’re to have any hope of a happy future. With the help of Riley’s supportive family, a dash of everyday magic, and the healing power of nature, can the pair let go of the troubled pasts they’ve clung to so tightly for so long?

Go on a powerful journey of forgiveness and healing with The Light Through the Leaves, a transcendent novel of love, loss, and self-discovery by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.

One unbearable mistake at the edge of the forest.

In a moment of crisis, Ellis Abbey leaves her daughter, Viola, unattended—for just a few minutes. But when she returns, Viola is gone. A breaking point in an already fractured marriage, Viola’s abduction causes Ellis to disappear as well—into grief, guilt, and addiction. Convinced she can only do more harm to her family, Ellis leaves her husband and young sons, burying her desperate ache for her children deeper with every step into the mountain wildernesses she treks alone.

In a remote area of Washington, a young girl named Raven keeps secrets inside, too. She must never speak to outsiders about how her mother makes miracles spring from the earth, or about her father, whose mysterious presence sometimes frightens her. Raven spends her days learning how to use her rare gifts—and more important, how to hide them. With each lesson comes a warning of what dangers lie in the world beyond her isolated haven. But despite her mother’s cautions, Raven finds herself longing for something more.

As Ellis and Raven each confront their powerful longings, their journeys will converge in unexpected and hopeful ways, pulled together by the forces of nature, love, and family.

Ai primi posti delle classifiche negli Stati Uniti
Un libro incredibile che riesce a toccare le corde più intime del cuore
Con il cuore infranto per la perdita di sua madre, Joanna Teale decide di tornare a dedicarsi alla sua passione e riprendere in mano la ricerca universitaria sugli uccelli che nidificano nelle foreste dell’Illinois. Vuole dimostrare a sé stessa che le difficoltà non possono fermarla, e così si getta nell’impresa con abnegazione. La sua solitudine viene però interrotta dall’apparizione di una misteriosa bambina, che si presenta alla sua porta a piedi nudi e coperta di lividi. La piccola dice di chiamarsi Orsa, e sostiene di essere stata mandata dalle stelle per assistere a cinque miracoli. Preoccupata per la bambina, Jo accetta – seppure con riluttanza – l’idea di trattenerla con sé, almeno fino a quando non saprà di più sul suo passato. Ma Jo non può farcela da sola, e così chiede l’aiuto del vicino, Gabriel Nash, per risolvere il mistero della bambina delle stelle. Più tempo trascorrono insieme, infatti, e più domande assillano Jo: come fa una ragazzina così piccola non solo a leggere ma anche a capire Shakespeare? Perché in sua presenza continuano a succedere cose straordinarie? Chi è davvero Orsa? Anche se Jo e Gabriel sentono di essersi affezionati a quella bambina, sanno bene che ci sono decisioni difficili che li attendono. E con l’arrivo dell’estate, si avvicina anche il quinto miracolo… Quando un pericoloso segreto del passato si abbatterà su di loro, le stelle saranno in grado di proteggerli?
Bestseller del «Wall Street Journal» e del «Washington Post» 
Oltre mezzo milione di copie solo negli Stati Uniti 
In corso di traduzione in 24 Paesi
«Un romanzo commovente, ricco di fascino e mistero.» 
Booklist 
«Una storia splendidamente umana che ci ricorda come a volte abbiamo bisogno di guardare le stelle oltre le cime degli alberi e far entrare un po’ di luce nella nostra vita.» 
New York Journal of Books 
«Una storia originale, fantasiosa ed emozionante. L’autrice è riuscita a creare un mondo molto reale e, al contempo, decisamente straordinario.» 
Taylor Jenkins Reid

È un’ornitologa che si è occupata per anni di uccelli in via di estinzione. Originaria di Chicago, vive in Florida con il marito, insieme a svariati uccelli, farfalle e fiori selvatici, di cui si prende cura. La bambina venuta dalla foresta è il suo romanzo d’esordio, che ha ottenuto uno straordinario successo, scalando le classifiche del «Wall Street Journal» e del «Washington Post» e diventando finalista ai prestigiosi Goodreads Choice Awards.