Marin thought college would be her chance to start over — a new city, new friends, and a new life far from the shadows of her past.
Then she meets Bette, the effortlessly sophisticated and dangerously captivating girl who seems to have it all. Drawn into Bette's alluring world of privilege and power, Marin quickly finds herself seduced by the glamour, but beneath the surface lies something far more sinister.
As secrets unravel and dark truths emerge, Marin realizes she's entangled in a web of manipulation and deceit she never saw coming.
With her sense of reality crumbling and her safety on the line, she must make an impossible choice — stay silent and survive or speak out and risk everything.
FIRST PLACE winner for the Chanticleer International Book Awards - Literary and Contemporary Fiction Division
Adam Craig still has nightmares about the last summer he spent on the shores of northern Wisconsin's Black Bear Lake.
The Chicago stock trader thinks he has it under control - until fallout from an explosive August in 1983 threatens his marriage. So Adam returns to remember that month-long family reunion, where he was busy wrestling with developing adolescence, a parent's failing health, and watching his cousin Dannie's desperate cries for help. At 14, Adam's fear and anger were constantly threatening to pull him under while the current running through his family flowed, inevitably, toward tragedy.
It was too much to bear back then. But will reliving those painful memories hurt or help Adam as his adult life teeters on the edge of collapse?