Chapter 39: Arrivals

The lake property looked exactly like Maddie's mood boards had promised, and better — the water a hard, bright blue under the late-May sun, the old boathouse freshly reinforced and gleaming with new cedar shingles, string lights already strung in long looping arcs between the porch posts of the three rental houses the group had taken for the weekend, waiting for dusk to make them glow. Maddie arr...