Iris Standish's life has been turned upside down. Her husband Paul
has blind sided her with wanting a separation. THE LAKE SEASON is
filled with love, heartbreak, family, and romance. Iris has always had the
love of her family, which is why she runs home to them when her life falls
apart. But she has always felt like an outsider looking in. Her parents,
while maybe not meaning to, have always played favorites with her sister,
Leah. No matter what Leah does, no matter how many bad decisions she
makes, her parents have always had her back. Iris doesn't feel like they
are the same way with her.
Leah has shocked everyone by announcing she is getting married and
wants Iris there to help her with all the plans. Once home, Iris is shocked
by the changes her family has made to the farm and barn in her absence. The
one thing that appears to be exactly the
same is her sister. Leah still seems to be a little reckless and attention
seeking - you know the kind that always has to be the life of the party. Iris
becomes concerned by some of Leah's strange behavior. Although Iris
tries to get Leah to open up, Leah refuses to confide in her and their
relationship becomes just like it was when they were kids. Iris was always
picking up the pieces to the mess Leah would leave behind and she finds
herself doing it again. Why don't her parents make Leah take responsibility
for her actions?
While all of this is going on, Iris finds herself constantly running into one of
her teenage crushes, Cooper Woods. Iris hides out in the barn that Cooper
is renovating for her family, to escape her problems. Cooper learns of Iris's
troubles at home and offers to listen when she wants to talk. At the same
time, he teaches her so many things as she helps him in the restoration of
the barn. Their renewed friendship is just what each of them need. Neither
one of them is interested in a summer fling, but is there really time for
anything more?
I still can't believe THE LAKE SEASON is a debut novel. Once I started
reading, I couldn't stop. I read this wonderful story in two sittings! Hannah
McKinnon pulled me right in from the very first page and never let me go.
She does such a great job of describing the scenery and the way the
characters are feeling that it was almost as if I were right there with them at
the lake and the farm. I love when an author can put me in their story.
I usually am reading many books at one time but once I started THE LAKE
SEASON all other books were put aside. I found myself cheering for the
Standish family, wondering if tragedy would pull this family together or
splinter it further apart. I finished reading the very last page with a huge
lump in my throat and a big smile on my face! I can not wait to read more
by Ms. McKinnon.
Set in the weeks leading up to an idyllic New England
wedding, this “enticing and refreshing” (Nancy Thayer, New
York Times bestselling author) novel sparkles with wry
wit,
sweet romance, and long-kept family secrets.
Iris Standish has always been the responsible older
sibling:
the one with the steady marriage, loving family, and
sensible job. But all of a sudden, as her
carefully-constructed life spins out of her control, a
cryptic postcard from her estranged sister Leah arrives at
the perfect time: Please Come. Iris seizes her chance to
escape to her childhood lakeside home, where Leah is
planning her summer wedding to a man their New Hampshire
clan has never met.
Against a backdrop of dress fittings, floral arrangements,
and rehearsal dinners, Leah hides secrets of her own. And
while her sister faces a past that has finally caught up
to
her, Iris prepares to say good-bye to a future that is
suddenly far from certain. As new love beckons and
Hampstead
Lake shimmers in the background, Iris must decide when to
wade in cautiously and when to dive—and, ultimately, how
to
ferry herself to safe harbors in this enticing novel of
second chances and the ties that bind.
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