Sister and Stranger

Mae and June Ashfield haven't spoken since the summer a boy bled out on the boat dock and one of them called it an accident. Twenty-two years later, June's daughter Cleo arrives with a DNA kit and a question nobody will answer. The sisters go back to the lake house their mother left them, to clear it and sell it. Under the dock planks, Mae finds a child's sneaker with Cleo's name written inside — and Cleo has never been here. As the sisters trade their versions of that summer, a stranger surfaces in the family photographs: a girl who lived with them for six weeks, whose placement file ends on August 20th and never resumes. One sister is lying. One sister is remembering. And somewhere under the boathouse slip is the person their mother decided was worth forgetting. A dark psychological thriller of two sisters, one lie, and the body that stayed between them.