A haunting story about the destructive power of secrets, The Secrets of Lake Road is an accomplished and gripping suspenseful womens fiction debutJo has been hiding the truth about her role in her high school boyfriends drowning for sixteen years. Every summer, she drops her children off with her mother at the lakeside community where she spent summers growing up, but cannot bear to stay herself everything about the lake reminds her of the guilt she feels. For her daughter Caroline, however, the lake is a precious world apart its familiarity and sameness comforts her every year despite the changes in her life outside its bounds. At twelve years old and caught between childhood and adolescence, she longs to win her mothers love and doesnt understand why Jo keeps running away.
