An unforgettable and heart-wrenching tale of one woman’s fight to hold her family together when everything around them crumbles.
“Mom, why are you so mad at Dad?”
“I’m not,” I reply—but it isn’t entirely true. Putting on a brave face for my two young daughters, pretending our marriage is fine, has been exhausting. That, and losing our home after Daniel’s lies, has left us reeling.
I never imagined I’d have to uproot my family to live in my parents’ remote cottage on Lost Lake. Twenty miles from the nearest town, surrounded by endless pine forests, no one has lived here for a decade.
As I lift a rusty pail from a bed of autumn leaves and hand it to my daughter, memories flood back—helping my own mother gather wild strawberries here as a child. Perhaps this place isn’t a punishment. Perhaps it’s where our family can start anew.
But later, I’ll cling to these memories—fragile echoes of another life. Because just eight hours after tucking my daughters into bed, feeling a flicker of hope, the world as we knew it—and as anyone knew it—was gone forever.
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