As I turned the final page, I wasn't at all ready to say goodbye to these compassionately imagined, vividly drawn characters. In Rain Breaks No Bones, the shadow of guilt, shame, and anger haunts–sometimes literally–Taylor's mid-twentieth-century Scranton, Pennsylvania. Here, as a stone cast in a river, events of the past continue to disrupt the present. Yet rising within her decent, troubled folks is the possibility of both courage and grace. Taylor delivers a powerhouse story of small-town life that resonates far beyond the time and place.–Laurie Loewenstein, author of Funeral Train