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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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Up at Butternut Lake by Mary McNear

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Also by Mary McNear:

The Light in Summer, June 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Secrets We Carried, October 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
The Secrets We Carried, October 2018
Paperback / e-Book
Up at Butternut Lake, June 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Light in Summer, June 2017
Paperback / e-Book
The Space Between Sisters, June 2016
Paperback
Moonlight on Butternut Lake, May 2015
Paperback / e-Book
Butternut Summer, August 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Up at Butternut Lake, April 2014
Paperback / e-Book

UP AT BUTTERNUT LAKE
By: Mary McNear

The Butternut Lake Trilogy
HarperCollins
April 2014
On Sale: April 14, 2014
Featuring: Allie Beckett; Wyatt
384 pages
ISBN: 0062283146
EAN: 9780062283146
Kindle: B00DB3D3AM
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Women's Fiction

In the tradition of Kristin Hannah and Susan Wiggs, Mary McNear introduces readers to the town of Butternut Lake and to the unforgettable people who call it home.

It's summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has returned to her family's cabin beside tranquil Butternut Lake, where as a teenager she spent so many carefree days. She's promised her five-year-old son, Wyatt, they will be happy there. She's promised herself this is the place to begin again after her husband's death in Afghanistan. The cabin holds so many wonderful memories, but from the moment she crosses its threshold Allie is seized with doubts. Has she done the right thing uprooting her little boy from the only home he's ever known?

Allie and her son are embraced by the townsfolk, and her reunions with old acquaintancesβ€”her friend Jax, now a young mother of three with one more on the way, and Caroline, the owner of the local coffee shopβ€”are joyous ones. And then there are newcomers like Walker Ford, who mostly keeps to himselfβ€”until he takes a shine to Wyatt . . . and to Allie.

Everyone knows that moving forward is never easy, and as the long, lazy days of summer take hold, Allie must learn to unlock the hidden longings of her heart, and to accept that in order to face the future she must also confrontβ€”and understandβ€”what has come before.

Butternut Lake

Up at Butternut Lake
UP AT BUTTERNUT LAKE
#1.0 β€’ April 2014
Butternut Summer
BUTTERNUT SUMMER
#2.0 β€’ August 2014
Moonlight on Butternut Lake
MOONLIGHT ON BUTTERNUT LAKE
#3.0 β€’ May 2015
The Light in Summer
THE LIGHT IN SUMMER
#5.0 β€’ June 2017

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