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  53. Also by Georgina Clarke
  54. About the Author
  55. Copyright

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 neighbour is a strange old man who seems to know more about the summer of 1935 than he’s telling…

‘Haunting’

Sunday Times (Crime Book of the Month)

‘An absorbing neo-gothic novel’

Times & Sunday Times Crime Club (Pick of the Week)

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It’s a fine line between admiration and envy.

Diana Martin has lived her life in the shadow of her sadistic older brother. She quietly watches the family next door, enthralled by celebrity fashion designer Marianne Taylor and her feted daughter, Aurelle.

She wishes she were a ‘Taylor girl’.

By the summer of 1995, the two girls are at university together, bonded by a mutual desire to escape their wealthy families and personal tragedies and forge new identities.

They are closer than lovers, intoxicated by their own bond, falling into the hedonistic seduction of the woods and the water at a remote university that is more summer camp than campus.

But when burgeoning artist Diana has a chance at fame, cracks start to appear in their friendship. To what lengths is Diana willing to go to secure her own stardom?

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Copyright

Copyright

This eBook edition first published in the UK in 2022 by VERVE Books,

an imprint of The Crime & Mystery Club Ltd,

Harpenden, UK

vervebooks.co.uk

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© Georgina Clarke, 2022

The right of Georgina Clarke to be identified as the authors of this work has been asserted in accordance with section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.