T.R. Stone** lives in a small town just outside Athens, Georgia. A daughter, a mother, and a grandmother of ten, she knows firsthand the fierce, complicated love at the heart of her debut novel. Inspired by her three children and ten grandchildren, *The Broken Loom* — a story about the price of power, the strength of mothers, and the magic that grows in the dark — is the first book in a planned four-part series.