Then one day she’s disturbed to spot a nervous-looking Paul talking to a strange woman. She doesn’t know what to trust-her heart, which knows Paul to be a good man, or her growing suspicion that there’s something he’s desperate to hide.Ĭharlotte, the narrator of this well-paced novel set in Lake Crosby, N.C., from Belle ( Dear Wife), was raised in poverty, but she has achieved her dream of a better life by marrying Paul Keller, the richest man in the Appalachian tourist town of Lake Crosby, N.C., despite the local gossip that Paul drowned his first wife four years earlier. His lie exposes cracks in their fragile new marriage, cracks Charlotte is determined to keep from breaking them in two.īut as secrets and people from Paul’s past begin to surface, Charlotte uncovers dark mysteries that have been simmering under the lake’s waters for years. Charlotte saw Paul talking to her the day before, even though Paul tells the police he’s never met the woman. But everything starts to unravel when she discovers a young woman’s body floating in the exact same spot where Paul’s first wife tragically drowned.Īt first, her death seems like a horrific coincidence, but the stranger in the lake is no stranger. They have a charmed life together, despite the cruel whispers about her trailer-park past and his first marriage. When Charlotte married older and wealthy widower Paul, it caused a ripple of gossip in their small lakeside town. In her small town she knows everybody’s name, but not their secrets.
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