num_pages: 316
description: Grieving over the loss of her family and feeling like her life is unraveling Lindsey McDermott quits her job gets a puppy and retreats to her grandparents home in the Texas Hill Country. She spends her solitary days walking childhood trails and reminiscing trying to reconcile the conflict within her as she struggles with survivors guilt. Hannah Larson after the death of her husband needs a change. At the suggestion of her mother-in-lawand against her better judgementshe and her nine-year-old son Jack move to tiny Utopia and into her husbands grandmothers house. When Jack and Lindsey form an unlikely friendship Hannah reluctantly joins them and the three spend the summer swimming and healing as laughter eventually replaces tears. After Jack goes back to school Hannah assumes their summer fun is over. Instead Lindsey continues to come around and nowas they find themselves aloneHannah realizes just how close theyve become. Soon she finds herself struggling with her feelings as their friendship threatens to shift into something much deepersomething she fears she wont be able to fight. Something she fears she wont want to fight.Genre: Romance
language: English
title: The Secret Pond
publisher: Bella Books