The Distant Hours

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Keeper comes a “moody suspenseful pageturner” People Best Book Pick filled with mystery and spellbinding secrets. Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall England Alice Edevane is a bright inquisitive and precociously talented sixteenyearold who loves to write stories. One midsummer’s eve after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended the Edevanes discover that their youngest child elevenmonthold Theo has vanished without a trace. He is never found and the family is torn apart the house abandoned. Decades later Alice is living in London having enjoyed a long successful career as a novelist. Miles away Sadie Sparrow a young detective in the London police force is staying at her grandfather’s house in Cornwall. While out walking one day she stumbles upon the old Edevane estate—now crumbling and covered with vines. Her curiosity is sparked setting off a series of events that will bring her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about a past long gone...yet more present than ever. A lush atmospheric tale of intertwined destinies from a masterful storyteller The Lake House is an enthralling thoroughly satisfying read.