The Lake House

When her favourite Aunt is diagnosed with cancer Julie Brown puts her travel plans and studies on hold, and returns to the quaint, historic town of Covington, Georgia to live with her in the Lake House.

Julie always wanted to make something of her life. She's ambitious and high achieving. But every step along the way, she's been knocked down. Her father was killed in Kenya before she was born, her mother died while she was still young. And she recently discovered that neither one of them was her biological family. But it's too late to ask them anything about it, and now she has an entirely new family on the other side of the world who she's never met.

She puts her own plans hold, determined to help Aunt Rita fight off cancer, when she runs into a Doctor who she hasn't seen since high school. He was a troubled kid and lived with them briefly when her mother tried to help him. She's always seen him as a brother. But they lost touch and now he's all grown up. He's achieved the kind of success she's always dreamed of and she can't help feeling like a total failure when he's around. Especially when it becomes apparent that where he's handsome, kind and patient, she is rapidly transforming into a hot mess.

Rita invites her obnoxious cousin, Cathy, to help her run the Honeysuckle Cafe while she's in treatment. And it isn't long before Cathy unveils her plans for the place, sending everyone into a frenzy. When they discover a stack of letters written between both their fathers, decades before their deaths, it threatens to upend everything they thought they knew about who these men were and what happened between them.

An inspirational and touching story of family, friendship and community, The Lake House is a small-town women’s fiction read you won't soon forget.