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The first chapter of Sequim author Lisa Preston’s debut novel is a bracing plunge into a world of shattered families and hard work.

“Orchids and Stone” is an addictive mash-up of psychological thriller, mystery, and contemporary family drama.

Meet Daphne Mayfield, a Western Washington University student who’s just a few months away from graduation. But when her father commits suicide on the anniversary of her big sister’s unsolved murder 10years earlier, Daphne upends her own life by quitting school and walking onto a construction site that advertises a women-in-construction training program.