On the night of her high school graduation in 1986, Kathryn Campbell’s best friend, Jennifer, vanished without a trace. Desire Lines is a taut, penetrating new novel filled with psychological suspense, sensitivity, and emotional complexity by the critically acclaimed author of Sweet Water. Desire Lines is a remarkable novel about friendship, memory, loss, and resurrection. Ultimately, Kathryn’s quest to find out the truth becomes a quest to save her own life as she races against time to keep Jennifer’s fate from becoming hers.

In the process, Kathryn realizes that if she is ever going to understand the circumstances of Jennifer’s disappearance, she is going to have to expose herself to the same risks and dangers. As she faces her own fear and grief, she is finally able to come to terms with the ways in which the loss of her friend has shaped her life and the lives of those who knew her. All the puzzle pieces are at her fingertips it’s a matter of whether Kathryn can put them together in a way that makes sense. As she explores the seemingly random series of events that led up to Jennifer’s disappearance, a pattern slowly begins to take shape.

At twenty eight, she’s been living for far too long on memories and questions now she needs to take a hard look at her own life at the same time that she is delving into the mystery of what happened to her friend. When a divorce sends Kathryn reeling back to the Maine town where she grew up, the young journalist finds herself face to face with her past. It’s been ten years since then, but Kathryn still feels the conspicuous void in her life and the nagging, guilty sense that she has failed her friend.

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