Obsidian

On his yearly hike into a high mountain basin four years after his wife's death, a ninety-year-old craftsman finds a half-finished obsidian point and reflects on his life—boyhood, courting Rachel, war in Normandy, and raising two adopted Native American children. Interwoven is the parallel story of The Arrow Maker, a club-footed ancient toolmaker who overcomes scorn to become his people's protector. Two lives, joined by stone, converge in a gentle meditation on faith, grief, and the shaping hand of God.

• Two lives separated by centuries, joined by a single piece of stone—and by the unseen hand of God.
• A ninety-year-old widower's last hike into the mountains becomes a meditation on a full and faithful life.
• A club-footed boy who can't be a warrior becomes his people's savior—and, generations later, a guardian angel.
• Clean, gentle, and deeply moving—an outdoorsman's answer to a life-well-lived story.

Perfect for a reader who loves the outdoors, clean multi-generational family stories, and gentle faith-tinged fiction about grief, legacy, and the hand of God in a quiet life.