num_pages: 284
description: The year is 1928. Kate Moore is looking for a way out of the poverty and violence of her childhood. When a chance encounter on a transatlantic ocean liner brings her face-to-face with the handsome heir to a Chicago fortune she thinks she may have found her escapeas long as she can keep her past concealed. After exchanging wedding vows Kate quickly discovers that something isnt quite right with her husbandor her new family. As Mrs. Matthew Lemont she must contend with her husbands disturbing past his domineering mother and his overly close sister. Isolated at Lakecrest the sprawling secluded Lemont estate she searches desperately for clues to Matthews terrors which she suspects stem from the mysterious disappearance of his aunt years before. As Kate stumbles deeper into a maze of family secrets she begins to question everyones sanityespecially her own. But just how far will she go to break free of this familys twisted past?
language: English
title: In the Shadow of Lakecrest
publisher: Lake Union Publishing