Four in Stone traces a single extraordinary year in the lives of four teenagers in apple-country Northern California-- Abe, Jeff, Lester, and Sarah " Roosie" Roosevelt-- whose chance rescue of a friend binds them together with a loyalty that shapes the rest of their lives. The story is set against the 1968- 69 backdrop of high-school football, orchards, summer work, music, first loves, secrets, and moral tests that ripen into a harvest of joy, betrayal, and loss. Suicide attempts, a devastating house fire, draft notices, and choices that will alter destinies. Told by Abe decades later, driven by memory and the urgency of fading time, the novel is a compassionate coming-of-age saga about friendship' s power and fragility-- how adolescence' s fierce intimacy can save and undo us, and how truth and forgiveness must be pursued when it matters most.