At twenty-four, Katie Gregory feels like life is looking up: she's snagged a great job in New York City and is falling for a captivating artist-and memories of her traumatic past are finally fading. Katie's life fell apart almost a decade earlier, during an idyllic summer at her family's cabin on Eagle Lake when her best friend accused her father of sexual assault. Throughout his trial and imprisonment, Katie insisted on his innocence, dodging reporters and clinging to memories of the man she adores.
Now he's getting out. Yet when Katie returns to the shuttered lakeside cabin, details of that fateful night resurface: the chill of the lake, the heat of first love, the terrible sting of jealousy. And as old memories collide with new realities, they call into question everything she thinks she knows about family, friends, and, ultimately, herself. Now, Katie's choices will be put to the test with life-altering consequences.
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[Two girls - almost young women, but not quite - stand side by side on a dock in the shade of an old green boathouse]***
(Lake Union Publishing, 1 February 2019, 362 pages, ebook, Amazon First Reads)
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This is my first time reading the author. I thought The Forgotten Hours was great, pretty dark at times but a great read. I was hooked from start to finish. I really felt for Katie, struggling to hold her life together, so blindly believing her father's innocence. The book moves back and forth between now with Katie preparing for her father's release and the fateful night ten years ago when her world blew apart. Katie discovers there are things about the past and her, now divorced parent's life she never knew and her world starts to come apart again. The final few chapters of the book really rattle along as Katie edges closer to the truth about what happened that night between Lulu and her father as she lay asleep on the couch.
