Swallowing Stones by:Joyce McDonald is a mysterious and suspenseful book. There are two main characters in this book; Jenna Ward and Michael Mackenzie. On Michael’s 17th birthday he took his gun that his grandparents gave him and with one of his friends to shoot it and little did he know it would travel over a mile and hit Jenna’s father and kill him.

After Michael figures out he is the one who killed a man he tries to hide the evidence with his friend Joe. Even though they hide the evidence the Police still suspect it was one of the two boys and throughout the book Michael feels a great deal of guilt.

In the end of the book Jenna and Michael both feel relaxed for the first time since the incident but the book ends with a huge cliffhanger.