title: Water, Stone, Heart: A Novel
author:  Will North 
description: North deftly creates an enchanting and touching love story reminiscent of those by Nicholas Sparks." <i><br /></i><i>Booklist</i><br /><br />If you like Nicholas Sparks, you will love Will Northhe is a strong, vivid writer with a romantics heart. <br /> Patricia Gaffney, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Mad Dash</i><br /><br /><b>Praise for Will Norths First Novel</b><br /><br />[A] lyrical first novel about love and loss . . . North offers vivid descriptions of the Welsh countryside, capturing its local dialect, flora and fauna, and wild weather . . . if Nicholas Sparks set a novel in North Wales, it would read a lot like this!<br /><i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br />How we perceive love and acknowledge its obligations is at the core of this first novel . . . witty exchanges and fascinating descriptions . . . a joy to read.<br /><i>Library Journal</i><br /><br />Norths bittersweet, romantic novel has invited some early comparisons with the bestselling work of Nicholas Sparks and Robert James Waller. <br /><i>Seattle Post-Intelligencer </i><br /><br />A brilliantly realized romance. <br />The Strand Book Store, New York City<br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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  Ferocity
  A Heart of Stone
  Novella
   
  By
  D H Sidebottom
  
   
  Ferocity
  A Heart of Stone novella
  Copyright © 2014
   
  By D H Sidebottom
   
   
   
   
  This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to actual places,
  incidents and persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  No parts of this book may be copied, replicated or forwarded in any form
  unless prior permission has been granted by the author.
   
  Copyright © 2014 D H Sidebottom
  
   
  Chapter 0ne
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen
  Chapter Fifteen
  Chapter Sixteen
   
   
   
  
  Chapter 0ne
  Ava
   
  The bitter wind bit at my nose and I sighed heavily as I stepped onto the
  tarmac. Mason wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me close, his lips
  softly brushing my temple in an effort to console me.
  I didn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to face the English winter once
  again. I didn’t want to face this. 