Light of the Moon / LouAnn Rice / 386 pages

"Human Beings needed to know they mattered."  Susannah Connolly has skipped her surprise 42nd birthday party to travel to French Carmargue to fulfill her mother's dying wish.  She believed that she had conceived Susannah due to the intercession of Sarah, saint to the Romany - gypsies, who has a shrine in Stes.-Maries.  Susannah meets Grey Dempsey her first day as he rescues her on horseback from wild bulls.  Susannah is able to help Grey's daughter, Sari, who was physically and emotionally damaged by her mother's abandonment.  Susannah is finally able to split with Ian and share her love of anthroplogy, caves, horses, and life with Grey.  The book is a page-turner with a great forgiveness theme.