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In the beautiful Pacific Northwest, a reclusive biologist returns to her childhood home on the Elwha River, where she...

Cheryl Grey Bostrom
Cheryl Grey Bostrom

A keen student of the natural world and the workings of the human heart, Pacific Northwest author Cheryl Grey Bostrom captures the mystery and wonder of both in her lyrical, surprising fiction. 

Her novels Sugar Birds (Christy finalist, Amazon bestseller, and Book of the Year) and Leaning on Air have won more than two dozen industry honors, among which are CT’s Fiction Award of Merit and American Fiction, Reader’s Favorite, ACFW Carol, Nautilus, Best Book, Foreword Indies, and International Book Awards. Cheryl's newest work of contemporary women’s fiction, What the River Keeps, releases August 12.

An avid birder and nature photographer, Cheryl lives in rural Washington State with her husband and a pack of half-trained Gordon setters. 

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What the River Keeps

Now available for PREORDER

In the beautiful Pacific Northwest, a reclusive biologist returns to her childhood home on the Elwha River, where she untangles her mysterious past.

“Bostrom’s writing is vivid . . . moving and satisfying. A touching love story.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (Starred Review)


Hildy Nybo is a successful biologist, her study of the...

Leaning on Air

A Beautiful Mind meets The Notebook.

He's autistic. She's adrift.

A most unusual love story.

They last spoke as teens—but on a country road twelve years later, a surprise encounter reunites ornithologist Celia Burke with equine surgeon Burnaby Hayes, and they dive into a love that carries them for years.

After a decade of marriage, Celia and...

Sugar Birds

Young Aggie lights a tragic fire, then flees into a Pacific Northwest forest, evading searchers who must bring her home before wilderness claims them all. Sugar Birds is "A true page-turner . . . an engrossing tale of survival and redemption." —KIRKUS REVIEWS.

NORTHWEST WASHINGTON STATE, 1985

For years, Harris Hayes has taught his daughter,...

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A Match Made in Heaven: a hummer, a book trailer and giveaway for WHAT THE



Friends,

I caught the tryst on camera a few years back, mere days past summer’s solstice: a secret encounter, in a pairing so mismatched, few ornithologists or botanists suspect it ever happens at all.

Nor did I, until I stumbled on the dawn scene in our asparagus bed, then a mass of six-foot ferns riddled with shy, green, solitary blossoms no more than a quarter-inch long. There, before heat or bees arrived, a female Anna’s hummingbird flitted from flower to flower, sipping. Usurping breeze...

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Events


August 12, 6:30-8:00 at the Lynden Meeting Room, Lynden WA Library

We are pleased to welcome two celebrated local authors back to the Lynden Library for the launch of Cheryl Grey Bostrom's latest novel, What the River Keeps.

About What the River Keeps:

In the beautiful PNW, a reclusive biologist returns to her childhood home on the Elwha River, where she untangles her mysterious past.

Hildy Nybo is a successful biologist, her study of the Pacific Northwest’s wild fish both a passion and a...

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