"Ambitious... Wood’s atmospheric touches are both thoughtful and playful."--San Jose Mercury News

"A larger-than-life storytelling and fascinating, carefully researched history enable THE BLESSING STONE to join the ranks of the finest sagas."--Romantic Times

"An absorbing adventure tale."--Booldist

Millions of years ago, a meteor fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain--and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generations to come. From ancient Israel to imperial Rome, medieval England, 15th-century Germany, the 18th-century Caribbean, and the 19th-century American West, the destiny of the stone and the history of the world unfold. Each story is full of the betrayals and obsessions of the human heart, and the quests of the human spirit. In The Blessing Stone, Barbara Wood has told both the intimate details of her characters’ lives and created a sense of the epic sweep of human history.