Vicki Stark's mother is overprotective, narcissistic, and often cruel and callous. She is also dying.
She has one last request: that Vicki scatter her ashes at Lake Amanda, three thousand miles away, at a precise location, on a precise date, at a precise time.
Pushing through long-held resentments, Vicki promises to fulfill the peculiar request. Her curiosity is piqued when she finds a love note that raises perplexing questions about her mother's secretive past.
Compounding the strains of their relationship, Vicki is navigating turmoil in her personal life—her love life in ruin, her lifelong friend on the brink of death.
Under the weight of it all, she learns her mother has passed at a most inopportune time. Propelled by obligation and guilt, Vicki races to the lake to keep her promise to her mother, only to discover shocking secrets from her mother's past the leaver her forever changed.
Lake Amanda is a richly layered work of women's fiction that explores complex mother-daughter dynamics, the fierce and sustaining power of female friendship, the delicate ties of sisterhood, and second-chance romance. Through one woman's painful examination of her fears and flaws, Lake Amanda illuminates the long and difficult road to forgiveness. Heartbreaking yet hopeful, this character-driven narrative abounds with sharp sister banter, dashes of spice, and 60s-70s nostalgia.
The lake is waiting. And it holds secrets that will reshape Vicki's understanding of her family, herself, and a mother she never knew.
