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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

THE SECRETS WE CARRIED
By: Mary McNear

Butternut Lake #6
William Morrow
October 2018
On Sale: September 25, 2018
368 pages
ISBN: 0062846108
EAN: 9780062846105
Kindle: B072VGCC8S
Hardcover / e-Book
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Paperback (October 2018)

Women's Fiction | Literature and Fiction

Butternut Lake is an idyllic place—but for one woman, her return to the lake town she once called home is bittersweet…

Sometimes life changes in an instant.

Quinn LaPointe grew up on beautiful Butternut Lake, safe, secure, sure of her future. But after a high school tragedy, she left for college and never looked back. Becoming a successful writer in Chicago, she worked to keep out the dark memories of an accident that upended her life. But now, after ten years, she’s finally returned home.

Butternut is the same, and yet everything is changed. Gabriel Shipp, once her very best friend, doesn’t want anything to do with her. The charming guy she remembers is now brooding and withdrawn. Tanner Lightman, the seductive brother of her late boyfriend, wants her to stick around. Annika Bergstrom, an old classmate who once hated Quinn, is now friendly. Everyone, it seems, has a secret.

Determined to come to terms with the tragedy and rebuild old relationships, Quinn settles into Loon Bay Cabins, a rustic but cozy lakeside resort, where she begins writing down her memories of the year before the accident. Her journey though the past leads her to some surprising discoveries about the present. As secrets are revealed and a new love emerges, Quinn finds that understanding the past is the key to the future.