The Secret by the Lake

**A FAMILY TRAGEDY**

When a tragedy forces the family Amy works for as a nanny to retreat to a small lakeside cottage, she realises she cannot leave them now.

**A SISTER’S SECRET**

But Amy finds something unsettling about the cottage by the lake. This is where the children’s mother spent her childhood – and the place where her sister disappeared mysteriously at just seventeen.

**A WEB OF LIES**

Soon Amy becomes tangled in the missing sister’s story as dark truths begin rising to the surface. But can Amy unlock the secrets of the past before they repeat themselves?

** *Your favourite authors love Louise Douglas . . .* **

*'Crackles with repressed longing . . . the explosive ending took my breath away'*** C.L. TAYLOR, author of THE ACCIDENT and THE LIE**