Book description
The ghosts of the past come calling in a spellbinding heart-stopper from the "Queen of the Northern Gothic."
After the end of her marriage, Kate Granger has retreated to her parents' home on Lake Superior to pull herself together-only to discover the body of a murdered woman washed into the…
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1 author picked Daughters of the Lake as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Webb uses dreams and ghosts to bridge a historical mystery with present-day events.
Take recently divorced Kate Granger. Her life is a mess, so she is recuperating at her parents’ waterfront home on Lake Superior. While there, a perfectly preserved woman, with her baby tucked in the folds of her gown, washes ashore. Kate shouldn’t recognize her, but she does.
She’s been dreaming of the woman who lived 100 years ago. Not only that, but the woman’s unsolved murder is connected to Harrison’s House which Kate’s great-grandfather built; it’s now her cousin’s bed and breakfast.
Will Kate’s dreams and the…
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