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JACQUELINE A HOOK - DEBUT AUTHOR - LAKE AMANDA, a novel
- Publication Date: October 15, 2026
- ISBN: 978-0-9664783-5-8
- Formats: Ebook, Paperback, Hardcover, Audiobook
- Genre: Contemporary Women's Fiction
Book description:
Vicki Stark’s mother is overprotective, narcissistic, and often cruel and callous. She is also dying.
She has one last request: that Vicki scatter her ashes at Lake Amanda, three thousand miles away, at a precise location, on a precise date, at a precise time.
Pushing through long-held resentments, Vicki promises to fulfill the peculiar request. Her curiosity is piqued when she finds a love note that raises perplexing questions about her mother’s secretive past.
Compounding the strains of their relationship, Vicki is navigating turmoil in her personal life—her love life crumbling, her lifelong friend on the brink of death.
Under the weight of it all, she learns her mother has passed at a most inopportune time. Propelled by obligation and guilt, Vicki races to the lake to keep her promise to her mother, only to discover mind-numbing secrets about her mother's past that slam Vicki like an emotional tsunami, leaving Vicki forever changed.
Lake Amanda is a richly layered work of fiction that explores complex mother-daughter dynamics, the fierce and sustaining power of female friendship, the delicate ties of sisterhood, and second-chance romance. Heartbreaking yet hopeful, this character-driven narrative abounds with sharp sister banter, dashes of spice, LGBTQ+ and disability representation, and 60s/70s nostalgia.
The lake is waiting. And it holds secrets that will reshape Vicki’s understanding of her family, herself, and a mother she never knew.
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