The Boathouse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780228822264)

Elizabeth Norris has spent sixty years living with the lies and secrets of a troubled family; an unstable, abusive father, a cold and distant mother, a sibling incapable of understanding anything but anger, and a lover ruled only by insatiable ambition.

And yet there is something beyond all of this, beyond all of the hidden pain caused by those that she trusted or should have trusted - for she bears upon her body unsightly, red gashes from right elbow to forearm and from collar-bone to beneath the chin. They are, for her, very real and tangible symbols of her own deeper, forgotten past that has haunted her steps for as long as she can remember and will not let her go.

Now, after her father's death, Elizabeth Norris has finally stumbled upon a clue to her own past and she finds herself on a long and lonely journey to the family's abandoned, cottage. An old, locked place up there just might hold the answer to the greatest secret of all - who she really is. THE BOATHOUSE