The Lake House

Ages 13 And Up, Grades 8 And Up

Yellowjackets meets One of Us Is Lying in this masterful survival thriller from award-winning author Sarah Beth Durst.

Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s just how she’s wired—her worst-case scenarios never actually come true.Until she arrives at an off-the-grid summer camp to find a blackened, burned husk instead of a lodge—and no survivors, except her and two other late arrivals: Reyva and Mariana.When the three girls find a dead body in the woods, they realize none of this is an accident. Someone, something, is hunting them. Something that hides in the shadows. Something that refuses to let them leave.Irresistible and action-packed until the very final page, The Lake House will have readers glued to their seats as tension builds and danger mounts—and a final, shocking twist is revealed.

About the Author

Sarah Beth Durst is the award-winning author of over twenty fantasy books for kids, teens, and adults, including Spark; Drink, Slay, Love; and the Queens of Renthia series. She won an American Library Association Alex Award and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and has been a finalist for SFWA's Andre Norton Nebula Award three times. She is a graduate of Princeton University, where she spent four years studying English, writing about dragons, and wondering what the campus gargoyles would say if they could talk. Sarah lives in Stony Brook, NY, with her husband, her children, and her ill-mannered cat. For more information, visit her at sarahbethdurst.com.