A stunning debut novel that examines the price of loyalty,
the burden of regret, the meaning of salvation, and the
sacrifices we make for those we love, told in the voices of
two unforgettable women linked by a decades-old family
mystery at a picturesque lake house.
In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her familyβs
vacation home on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance
destroys the familyβher father commits suicide, and her
mother and two older sisters spend the rest of their lives
at the lake house, keeping a decades-long vigil for the lost
child.
Sixty years later, Lucy, the quiet and watchful middle
sister, lives in the lake house alone. Before her death, she
writes the story of that devastating summer in a notebook
that she leaves, along with the house, to the only person
who might care: her grandniece, Justine. For Justine, the
lake house offers freedom and stabilityβa way to escape her
manipulative boyfriend and give her daughters the home she
never had. But the long Minnesota winter is just beginning.
The house is cold and dilapidated. The dark, silent lake is
isolated and eerie. Her only neighbor is a strange old man
who seems to know more about the summer of 1935 than heβs
telling.
Soon Justineβs troubled oldest daughter becomes obsessed
with Emilyβs disappearance, her mother arrives to steal her
inheritance, and the man she left launches a dangerous plan
to get her back. In a house haunted by the sorrows of the
women who came before her, Justine must overcome their
tragic legacy if she hopes to save herself and her children.
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