For Caroline’s daughter, Daisy, the summer is filled with surprises. Home from college, she’s reunited with the father she adores—but hardly knows—and swept away by her first true love. But Will isn’t what her mother wants for her—all Caroline can see is that he’s the kind of sexy “bad boy” Daisy should stay away from.
As the long, lazy days of summer pass, Daisy and Caroline come to realize that even if Butternut Lake doesn’t change, life does. . . .
UP AT BUTTERNUT LAKE
* * *
It’s summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has returned to the family cabin beside tranquil Butternut Lake, where as a teenager she spent so many carefree days. She’s promised her five year old son, Wyatt, they will be happy there. She’s promised herself this is the place to begin again after the death of her husband in Afghanistan. The cabin holds so many wonderful memories, but from the moment she crosses its threshold Allie is seized with doubts. Has she done the right thing uprooting her little boy from the only home he’s ever known?
Allie and her son are embraced by the townsfolk, and her reunions are joyous ones—with her friend Jax, now a young mother of three with one more on the way, and Caroline, the owner of the local coffee shop. And then there are newcomers like Walker Ford, who mostly keeps to himself—until he takes a shine to Wyatt . . . and to Allie.
Everyone knows that moving forward is never easy, and as the long, lazy days of summer take hold, Allie must learn to unlock the hidden longings of her heart, and to accept that in order to face the future we must also confront—and understand—what has come before.
ALSO BY MARY MCNEAR
Butternut Lake: The Night Before Christmas (novella)
Butternut Summer
Up at Butternut Lake
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Cover photographs: © Kotenko Oleksandr/Shutterstock (couple); © MasPix/Alamy (lake)
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