title: Lakeland Lily
author: Lightfoot, Freda
description: Lily Thorpe has big dreams—she wants to make her fortune as a dressmaker, get away from the poor fishing community of Carreckwater, and she wants to marry Dick Rawlings, her secret sweethert. But when tragedy strikes and Dick is killed in a boating accident, Lily is forced to come to terms with life without him. She soon finds, however, that fate is not that simple, and she is torn between a desire for revenge and her continuing wish to make a better life for herself.