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A body burns in the desert... Does the boy who found it know more
than it seems? Sal Prentiss, orphaned and burdened with a terrible
secret, just wants a place to belong. Sal lives with his uncles on
a desolate ranch in the hills, and finds himself at the centre of a
brutal murder mystery when he discovers the body of his maths
teacher, charred almost beyond recognition, half a mile from his
uncles' compound. In the seven months he worked at Lovelock's
middle school, the quiet and seemingly unremarkable Adam Merkel had
formed a bond with Sal and was one of the few people to look out
for the boy. Nora Wheaton, the school's social studies teacher,
sensed a kindred spirit in Adam - another soul bound to Lovelock by
guilt and duty. After his death, she delves into his past for clues
to who killed him. For Sal's grief seems shaded with fear, and Nora
suspects he knows more than he's telling about his teacher's death.
In 1935, six-year-old Emily Evans vanishes from her family's summer
house on a remote Minnesota lake. Her disappearance destroys the
family - her father takes his own life, 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 stability - a 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 he's telling. Soon Justine's troubled
oldest daughter becomes obsessed with Emily's disappearance, her
absent mother reappears, 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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