Set against the quiet beauty of a fictional Northern Michigan lake town, the Lake Tearas Trilogy explores family legacies, buried truths, forgiveness, and the complicated search for belonging. Through interconnected stories spanning generations, each novel reveals how the past continues to shape the people—and the place—we call home.

At its heart, the Lake Tearas Trilogy is about the families we inherit, the secrets we carry, and the ways love and loss echo across generations. These emotionally layered novels explore identity, reconciliation, motherhood, abandonment, forgiveness, belonging, and the quiet courage it takes to confront the truth.

- emotionally layered women’s fiction

- lakeside settings and small-town atmosphere

- multi-generational family stories

- mother/daughter relationships

- family secrets and emotional healing

- interconnected characters and evolving relationships

- reflective, character-driven storytelling

- book club fiction with heart

Coming October 13, 2026

Eighteen-year-old Cate McDermott appears to have everything—wealth, opportunity, and a carefully planned future in New York City. But after discovering long-buried fractures within her family, she journeys to Lake Tearas, Michigan, determined to uncover the truth about the mother who has spent years keeping the past at a distance.

What begins as a search for answers becomes a summer that changes everything she thought she knew about family, identity, forgiveness, and herself.

Coming June 15, 2027

As hidden connections from the past continue to surface, two people shaped by abandonment and loss must confront the lives they were given—and the lives they truly want. Set once again against the backdrop of Lake Tearas, Finding You explores family separation, belonging, grief, and the fragile hope of second chances.

Coming March 14, 2028

In the final installment of the Lake Tearas Trilogy, long-held secrets, fractured relationships, and generations of heartache converge in the lakeside town that has quietly carried them all. As past and present collide, the people of Lake Tearas must decide whether reconciliation is truly possible—and what it means to finally come home.