Other People's Secrets
A Novel
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Publisher Description
Baby’s down—and could be out for good—when she faces off with forces bent on turning her lakeside paradise into a living hell, for fans of Alissa Nutting and Amy Engel.
Baby’s heart is in the right place, but she’s got problems—namely, a fierce taste for booze and an on-again, off-again boyfriend who can't commit. She’s living and working at Oakwood Hills, a crumbling lakeside resort, with her friends, Crystal Nugget and DJ Overalls, reeling since her adoptive mother died of a stroke. And now, the return of the local drug kingpin, Bad Mike, is about to throw her already unstable summer into full-blown chaos.
To make matters worse, the owner of Oakwood Hills announces plans to sell the resort to Amelia, her boyfriend's wealthy twin sister, who plans to renovate it, sucking the life out of the only home Baby's ever known. Desperate to thwart the sale, Baby and her friends decide to try to recover a sunken treasure rumored to be sitting at the bottom of the lake. But Bad Mike also has his eyes on the prize and when the search gets criminal, Baby will be forced to walk down a road full of hidden secrets that will change how she sees herself—and her life—forever.
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Baby, the protagonist of Hambrock's dynamic debut, faces a number of disruptive changes in her life: her adoptive mother's death, her mentor's disappearance, and the possible sale of Oakwood Hills, the failing lakeside resort where Baby works and considers home, to her on-again, off-again boyfriend's wealthy sister, Amelia. While trying to undermine Amelia's efforts to buy the resort, Baby learns of a safe full of cash at the bottom of the lake and sets out with some friends on a dangerous underwater search for it. When meth dealer and recently released jailbird Big Mike returns to Oakwood Hills to look for the same treasure, the enraged Baby bands together a ragtag army of locals to beat Big Mike at his strong-armed game. If she can thwart Big Mike, Baby could get everything she's ever wanted. The discovery of a connection between her family and criminal activity turns Baby's quiet search into a complex race against time. Surprising plot twists match eccentric, reckless characters. Readers will be curious to see what Hambrock comes up with next.
