Returning home can mean facing the past you’ve tried to forget.

Elloree Elliston comes back to her family’s Charleston County home on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, haunted by a tragedy she cannot shake. Hoping for refuge from a looming lawsuit in Idaho, she expects isolation — but instead finds a community alive with secrets, hidden histories, and unexpected connections.

As her father Jack’s health declines, Elloree uncovers the mysterious past of the man she thought she knew. Around her, the islanders — a wise natural healer, a pair of philosophical crabbers, and her sister’s devoted housekeeper — each carry stories of love, loss, and sacrifice, including a desperate fight to protect those far away. Amid tidal rivers, moss-draped live oaks, and the timeless rhythm of the South Carolina Lowcountry, Elloree must confront her guilt, face painful truths, and discover that healing often comes from the most surprising places.

Fig Days is a haunting, lyrical tale of family, faith, and redemption, where secrets unravel, hearts are mended, and hope finds a way.

Praise for Fig Days

“Michel Stone is a gifted storyteller on a mission. Elloree Ellison is outrunning her past but is losing ground. Hoping to hide and reinvent herself after a bad spell in Idaho, she finds herself back in the languid lowcountry of South Carolina, where her family roots are tangled in secrets. This haunting story will keep you turning pages long into the night. An excellent southern novel that spins despair into hope.”

-Adriana Trigiani, NYT best-selling author of The View From Lake Como

“From the first page to the last, Fig Days’ power hits us with the guilt of transgression, the fear of retribution, and the vulnerabilities of the innocent. A haunting tale that reminds us that some who feign righteousness are the most guilty among us, and those who harbor injustice must find their own way to freedom. The memorable characters of this southern drama reveal the collision of the tight-fisted religious against the true nature of mankind.”

- Delia Owens, NYT bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing

"Michel Stone has written a love letter to the South Carolina Lowcountry—a place she knows with generational intimacy. Her profound connection infuses every page with lyrical beauty and authenticity, revealing not just landscape but soul. A true master of her craft, Stone creates a gripping story where readers find themselves reflected and moved to protect what she so gorgeously illuminates. Storytelling at its finest."

– Mary Alice Monroe, NYT bestselling author

“Fig Days has everything I hope for in a novel, complex characters, vivid writing, compelling story, but what most impresses is Michel Stone’s ability to intertwine her characters’ lives so seamlessly that their often-disparate stories merge into something singular and greater--a profound vision of the heart’s depths and contradictions.”

- Ron Rash, NYT bestselling author of Serena

"Fig Days is a novel of haunting beauty. With prose as resonant with beauty as the South Carolina lowcountry it so lovingly evokes, this is a story about the power of healing and the weight of secrets. Michel Stone delivers a love letter to the families and communities that both birth and burden us with their legacies. With tangled truths, buried guilt, and unforgettable characters, Fig Days is a story you’ll dwell in and deeply miss when it’s over. Stone’s sentences make you pause to breathe, and then race ahead to see what’s been unearthed. Fig Days is a novel that does more than tell a story — it leaves a mark of wonder and redemption.”

- Patti Callahan Henry, NYT Bestselling author of The Story She Left Behind