Can a stone be cursed? The 'Karensa Emerald', a mystical healing stone found by a Cherokee shaman in the mid-1800s traveled west on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma. In Book One of The Emerald Series Karensa Moorehead inherited it - and its blessing or curse. During her short, often violent life, Karensa had children by two very different men: John Jean Cappen, a missionary doctor on the llanos of Venezuela and handsome, passionate Bart Grant, a sheriff...