Lost Lake : A Novel

From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes a novel about heartbroken people finding hope at a magical place in Georgia called Lost Lake.

The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake it was on a picture postcard, and she knew she was seeing her future.

That was half a life ago. Now Lost Lake is about to slip into Eby's past. Her husband George is long passed. Most of her extended family are gone. All that's left is a collection of cabins succumbing to the Southern Georgia heat and damp, and a group of misfits drawn back to Lost Lake year after year by their own unspoken dreams and desires.

It's a lot, but not enough to keep Eby from relinquishing Lost Lake to a developer, and calling this her final summer at the lake. Until one last chance at family knocks on her door.

Lost Lake is where Kate Pheris spent her best summer at the age of twelve, before she learned of loneliness, and heartbreak, and loss. Now she's all too familiar with those things, but she knows about hope too, thanks to her resilient daughter, and her own willingness to start moving forward. Perhaps at Lost Lake her little girl can cling to her childhood for a little longer… and maybe Kate can rediscover something that slipped through her fingers long ago.

One after another, people find their way to Lost Lake, looking for something that they weren't sure they needed in the first place: love, closure, a second chance, a mystery solved, a heart mended. Can they find what they need before it's too late?