Kate Morton, author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, returns with The Lake House, a novel that will keep you guessing and astound you.During the summer of 1933, the Edevane family's country house is all set for the Midsummer Eve Party. Sixteen-year-old budding author Alice Edevane is especially excited; she's finished her novel and fallen in love. But by the time the clock strikes midnight, there's been a tragic incident...Seventy years later and Sadie Sparrow is on an enforced break from the Metropolitan Police. While on a Cornish retreat, she stumbles across an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace. Meanwhile, the now-elderly Alice is leading a life as neatly plotted as the detective novels she writes, but when a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, she must face up to a tangle of secrets she's been running from her whole life...