The Secrets We Carried, Mary McNear
The Secrets We Carried, Mary McNear
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The Secrets We Carried

Author: Mary McNear

Narrator: Amanda Dolan

Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/25/2018


Synopsis

Readers who love Susan Wiggs and Susan Mallery will adore New York Times bestselling author Mary McNear newest novel. A young woman travels home to Butternut Lake, confronting her past and the tragedy she and her friends have silently carried with them for over a decade while also facing an unknown future.Butternut Lake is an idyllic place—but for one woman, her return to the lake town she once called home is bittersweet…Sometimes life changes in an instant.Quinn LaPointe grew up on beautiful Butternut Lake, safe, secure, sure of her future. But after a high school tragedy, she left for college and never looked back. Becoming a successful writer in Chicago, she worked to keep out the dark memories of an accident that upended her life. But now, after ten years, she’s finally returned home.Butternut is the same, and yet everything is changed. Gabriel Shipp, once her very best friend, doesn’t want anything to do with her. The charming guy she remembers is now brooding and withdrawn. Tanner Lightman, the seductive brother of her late boyfriend, wants her to stick around. Annika Bergstrom, an old classmate who once hated Quinn, is now friendly. Everyone, it seems, has a secret.Determined to come to terms with the tragedy and rebuild old relationships, Quinn settles into Loon Bay Cabins, a rustic but cozy lakeside resort, where she begins writing down her memories of the year before the accident. Her journey though the past leads her to some surprising discoveries about the present. As secrets are revealed and a new love emerges, Quinn finds that understanding the past is the key to the future.

About Mary McNear

Mary McNear, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Butternut Lake series, writes in a local doughnut shop, where she sips Diet Pepsi, observes the hubbub of neighborhood life, and tries to resist the constant temptation of freshly made doughnuts. Mary bases her novels on a lifetime of summers spent in a small town on a lake in the northern Midwest.


Reviews

Goodreads review by DJ on October 09, 2018

Favorite Quotes: Northern Superior High School had been built in 1930, when Americans still had a reverence for public education, and the two-story brick building, with a white stone arch over the entranceway and two white stone columns flanking it, spoke to the seriousness of the work to be done in......more

Goodreads review by Vivian on September 19, 2018

Mary McNear’s THE SECRETS WE CARRIED is a novel that deals with loss, love, family, secrets, discoveries and healing. A terrible tragedy occurs many years ago when Quinn LaPointe was a senior in high school, and now she returns to her home and beloved Butternut Lake to face what she should have so l......more

Goodreads review by Mrs Mommy Booknerd on October 01, 2018

#FirstLine ~ Why am I here? I love visiting Butternut Lake. Butternut Lake has such interesting people working through the thing we call life. McNear did such a great job creating a place that now feels familiar to me, as I have read all of the Butternut Lake books that McNear has written. In the new......more

Goodreads review by Tonya on February 02, 2019

Wow! Mind twister going deep into the past trying to unravel how her ex boyfriend died. Quinn is a journalist who is great at digging out the truths when interviewing others.... but can she dig past her own mind blocks to come to peace with the tragic accident from her junior year in high school? Ver......more

Goodreads review by Katy O. on August 27, 2019

(free review copy) it was fine. but not at all like the other books in the series, and didn’t really tie those characters in, so I was disappointed......more