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The Lake House
When her favourite Aunt is diagnosed with cancer Julie Brown puts her studies on hold, and returns to the quaint, historic town of Covington, Georgia to live at the Lake House.
Julie always wanted to make something of her life. She's ambitious and high achieving. Yet at every step along the way, she's been knocked down. The latest blow leaves her reeling, so she opts to take a sabbatical from her PhD studies and instead focus on helping Aunt Rita beat cancer.
At the hospital she runs into a man she hasn't seen since high school. He was a troubled kid and lived with them briefly when her mother tried to help him. She's always seen him as a brother. But they lost touch and now he's all grown up and has become a doctor. He's achieved the kind of success she's always dreamed of and she can't help feeling like a total failure when he's around. Especially when it becomes apparent that while he's handsome, kind and patient, she's rapidly transforming into a hot mess.
Struggling to deal with her vengeful cousin at the Honeysuckle Cafe, Rita searches through memorabilia that had been locked away in the lake house by her mother, in the hopes it might connect the two of them. She discovers an old stack of letters written to her mother and father. What she reads, could threatens everything she thought she knew about the past and her already fragile relationship with her cousin.
An inspirational and touching story of family, friendship and community, The Lake House is a small-town women’s fiction read you won't soon forget.
Read The Lake House if you enjoy sweet and wholesome fiction with:
Small town
Romantic
Southern
Family mystery
Friendships
Second Chance
Forbidden love
Julie always wanted to make something of her life. She's ambitious and high achieving. Yet at every step along the way, she's been knocked down. The latest blow leaves her reeling, so she opts to take a sabbatical from her PhD studies and instead focus on helping Aunt Rita beat cancer.
At the hospital she runs into a man she hasn't seen since high school. He was a troubled kid and lived with them briefly when her mother tried to help him. She's always seen him as a brother. But they lost touch and now he's all grown up and has become a doctor. He's achieved the kind of success she's always dreamed of and she can't help feeling like a total failure when he's around. Especially when it becomes apparent that while he's handsome, kind and patient, she's rapidly transforming into a hot mess.
Struggling to deal with her vengeful cousin at the Honeysuckle Cafe, Rita searches through memorabilia that had been locked away in the lake house by her mother, in the hopes it might connect the two of them. She discovers an old stack of letters written to her mother and father. What she reads, could threatens everything she thought she knew about the past and her already fragile relationship with her cousin.
An inspirational and touching story of family, friendship and community, The Lake House is a small-town women’s fiction read you won't soon forget.
Read The Lake House if you enjoy sweet and wholesome fiction with:
Small town
Romantic
Southern
Family mystery
Friendships
Second Chance
Forbidden love
228 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 24, 2025
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About the author
Lilly Mirren
37 books318 followersLilly Mirren is a USA Today Bestselling women's and contemporary fiction author.
She lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband and three children. When she's not writing she's running around after children, bushwalking, or spending time with friends.
"If readers are looking for an author who is the perfect mix of Debbie Macomber and Nora Roberts, Lilly Mirren is it." - InD'tale Magazine
She lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband and three children. When she's not writing she's running around after children, bushwalking, or spending time with friends.
"If readers are looking for an author who is the perfect mix of Debbie Macomber and Nora Roberts, Lilly Mirren is it." - InD'tale Magazine
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July 23, 2025
The mix-n-match families in Australia and Georgia, USA, brings more situations and problems to the little cafe and house on the beach. Can you imagine in book one, mixing up IVF and the problems it causes twenty plus years later. It's like a blond among the dark hair of family. Now in this storyline, we find the results of knowing there was a mix-up and the personalities that result when no one knows what to do with all this new information, who are we really. I love all the families that are involved, and I love Dr. James who finds Julie. Cancer treatments affect the cafe and those lives change. I loved the storyline of family, solutions and hugs along the way. Thanks for excellent writing.
July 31, 2025
This is the second book in the series. The characters are so relatable. Many of the topics are current issues for people such IVF and cancer. It’s a story with romance as well as drama and spans across Australia as well as the United States. It is another great book!
July 31, 2025
A wonderful story with great characters who pull you into the story. It’s a book that cannot be put down until it is finished! Being into genealogy for over thirty years, this novel was amazing!
August 28, 2025
The Lake House
Another great story but I’m going through them too fast. I need more books to read and happy ones like these
Another great story but I’m going through them too fast. I need more books to read and happy ones like these
January 19, 2026
Quick easy cute reads! I love the simplicity and the clean romance. Great palate cleansers! You can't go wrong with a Lilly Mirren book.
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