Too much had happened: the search parties, the policemen, the articles in the newspapers pleading for information. She’d missed her chance, though, and now it was too late.

She’d been in and out of the woods all her life and knew the way by heart.īack when it first happened, she’d considered confessing, and perhaps, in the beginning, she might have. Something bolted through the bracken nearby, but she didn’t flinch, didn’t stop. Rain stippled the surface of the trout stream, drummed relentlessly on the earth beside it. She’d come earlier to dig the hole, but only now, under veil of darkness, would she finish the job. She’d have to hide it afterwards no one could know that she’d been out.Ĭlouds covered the moon, a stroke of luck she didn’t deserve, and she made her way through the thick, black night as quickly as she could. The rain was heavy now and the hem of her dress was splattered with mud. Her curiosity is sparked, setting off a series of events that will bring her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about a past long gone.yet more present than ever.Ī lush, atmospheric tale of intertwined destinies from a masterful storyteller, The Lake House is an enthralling, thoroughly satisfying read. While out walking one day, she stumbles upon the old Edevane estate-now crumbling and covered with vines. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather’s house in Cornwall. He is never found, and the family is torn apart, the house abandoned.ĭecades later, Alice is living in London, having enjoyed a long successful career as a novelist. One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace. Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Homecoming comes a “moody, suspenseful page-turner” ( People, Best Book Pick) filled with mystery and spellbinding secrets.

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