Mother Daughter Sister Stranger

She's spent twenty-six years building a lie good enough to live inside.It's about to come looking for her.Every September, the Hardy family gathers at the same lake house to mark the anniversary of the tragedy that first brought them together. This year, on the eve of the reunion, Nora Hardy vanishes-leaving behind an untouched bed, an unringing phone, and a family that doesn't yet know how little they actually know about her.Her daughter Claire returns from the city she fled to years ago. Her other daughter, Vivian, never left-and never stopped watching. And a stranger has just checked into the only inn in town, carrying a secret that will unravel everything the Hardys believed about their own history.As the search for Nora deepens, so does the web of lies underneath it. A hidden letter. A photograph that shouldn't exist. A caretaker who's kept a decades-old promise for far too long. Someone in this town has been protecting a truth worth burying-and worth killing for.Because some families don't survive their secrets.They just get better at hiding them.