Nursing her mother back to health wasn’t all that drew Georgie Haydock back to the mountain tourist town of Chimney Rock. The summer roils as her mother thrashes in her bed, insisting that the strange woman stalking her store downstairs is Georgie’s missing sister. Georgie aches to reunite with the hometown boy she never forgot. But she fears all the summer’s turmoil will force her to unveil the secret that drove her away from him 13 years earlier. For his part, naturalist Ron Elliott doesn’t care what Georgie did all those years back. She’s the one creature he’s always yearned to possess.
Dancing on Rocks weaves through a network of memories, secrets, and mutual dependencies twisting through this isolated community of 112 at the foot of Chimney Rock State Park. Thousands of visitors stream through this tourist destination every week, but in reality, the people in the small village have only each other.
"Dancing on Rocks is riveting from beginning to end."- Anita Lock for IndiReader
"This is a 'find a good, comfortable spot, plenty of time, and a great cup of coffee' kind of book. Once opened, the reader is taken on the trip of a lifetime. It encompasses beautiful settings, noteworthy incidents, memorable characters, a well-thought out, realistic plot, and is expertly written."- N.C. Society of Historians, Inc.
"Spooky strangers spying on the town, mysterious disappearances of long ago, buried treasure- maybe it is inevitable that a story set in the shadows of one of the most famous crags in America would be a cliffhanger. And Dancing on Rocks is certainly that. But it is also a telling study of individuals, families and local history. Rose Senehi has written a complex but entertaining story."- Fred Chappell, North Carolina poet laureate emeritus and author of Ancestors and Others and Look Back All the Green Valley.
..".a book that manages the rare feat of being a page turner as well as a satisfying exploration of the human heart; a book that, like the river that runs through Chimney Rock, is swift and deep.- Tommy Hays, Author of What I Came to Tell You and The Pleasure Was Mine
..".Senehi weaves a multi-layered tale of emotional power and redemptive transformation. Simply put, the tale is a love story of rich complexity-love of land, love of family, love of what has been, and the longing love of what might have been. Senehi pulls you into her characters' lives and makes you care about all of it."
- Mark deCastrique, Author, A Murder in Passing, A Sam Blackman Mystery
"Senehi's keen observation of the natural beauty of the mountains, in sharp contrast to the tourist kitsch of a tiny mountain community, provides a vivid setting for the tangled lives and loves of the village's inhabitants- Vicki Lane, Author of the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries
"Few locally set novels involve their settings as faithfully as Dancing on Rocks captures various aspects of Chimney Rock. Senehi does this by contrasting the history and the contemporary reality of the up-and-down tourist town. The dialogue is natural; the theme, 'we will survive.' Deftly, Senehi folds in mystery, romance, environmentalism, and oh!-a great character in the person of the heroine's spunky mom."-Rob Neufeld, Book Reviewer, Asheville Citizen-Times; Web Editor, The Read on WNC
