Watershed: A Lost Lake Story($19.99Value)

Description

A small Michigan town. A boy already judged. A truth no one has been willing to look for. In Pinehaven, everyone knows what happened on Miller's Ridge four years ago. Noah Strickland was driving the ATV when his best friend died, and no amount of time has changed what the town has decided about him. When Liam Murphy meets Noah for the first time, he sees something in the boy he understands too well. Liam has carried his own irreversible day for nine years, and he recognizes the particular silence of a young man defined by a single act. With his wife Ellen at his side, Liam offers Noah what no one else has — a place at Lost Lake Lodge, and a slow chance to belong. Then a night of violence in Pinehaven puts Noah at the center of a case the town is already certain it has solved. As his trial draws closer and the evidence against him hardens, Liam, Ellen, and a small circle around them begin looking for the truth the town has missed. What they find runs through the back roads and rough country surrounding Lost Lake — and into a silence one man has been keeping on the Ridge. Watershed is the third novel in Sean O'Bryan's Lost Lake series, following Lost Lake and Lost Lake Lodge . Set in northern Michigan and rendered in the spare, attentive prose readers have come to expect from the series, Watershed is a novel about guilt, grace, and what it costs to stand beside someone the world has decided to judge. Readers of Kent Haruf, William Kent Krueger, Leif Enger, and Larry Watson will find a familiar register in Watershed — the small-town moral seriousness, the restrained prose, the slow-build suspense that earns its resolution. The novel can be read as a standalone, but readers of Lost Lake and Lost Lake Lodge will recognize Liam, Ellen, and the Lodge itself, now under fuller weight than ever before. * * * Praise for the Lost Lake series: "Pinehaven is one of those rare fictional towns that feels completely real. I know these people. I know this lake. Watershed earns its place beside the best small-town American novels — quiet, unhurried, and quietly devastating in the way only the best of them are." "I did not expect to be moved as deeply as I was. By the end I cared about every person in this novel — Liam and Ellen, Noah, Jessa, Roy on his ridge. O'Bryan trusts his readers, and the trust is repaid. The closing chapter sat with me for days." * * * About the author: Sean O'Bryan is the author of Lost Lake , Lost Lake Lodge , and Watershed . He has practiced estate planning law in Michigan for over thirty-five years.