That Lake House Summer

By Debbie Mumford

Amanda Baines loves her family. Really. Even her younger siblings, the rug rats. But when her parents take all her carefully crafted summer plans and blow them straight to … well someplace even hotter than Oklahoma in July, she is definitely not a happy camper. Spending the summer at the lake house her father had frequented as a child is SO not what she had planned. Especially not when said house is totally secluded and offers no modern conveniences. Not even an indoor toilet! Will Amanda survive an unplugged summer in a creepy old house that seems to be watching her like a beast of prey?

• Language: English
• Publisher: WDM Publishing
• Release date: Sep 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393765370

Debbie Mumford

Debbie Mumford specializes in speculative fiction—fantasy, paranormal romance, and science fiction. Author of the popular Sorcha’s Children series, Debbie loves the unknown, whether it’s the lure of space or earthbound mythology. Her work has been published in multiple volumes of Fiction River, as well as in Heart’s Kiss Magazine, Spinetingler Magazine, and other popular markets. She writes about dragon-shifters, time-traveling lovers, and ghostly detectives for adults as Debbie Mumford and contemporary fantasy for tweens and young adults as Deb Logan.

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That Lake House Summer

That Lake House Summer

Deb Logan

WDM Publishing

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Epilogue

About Deb Logan

Also by Deb Logan

Chapter One

Parents. Ya gotta love ‘em. At least until they do something totally idiotic like taking all your carefully crafted summer plans and blowing them straight to … well someplace even hotter than Oklahoma in July.

I mean, why in the world — this one or the next or any of the ones humanity might colonize in the next thousand years — would anyone think an intelligent, attractive, and eminently popular seventeen-year-old girl like me would want to spend the summer before her senior year in high school marooned in a cabin on a lake in the middle of nowhere?

Did Mom and Dad not realize I had plans? I had a cush summer job all lined up (lifeguarding at an exclusive country club pool). I had once-in-a-lifetime events scheduled (front row seats for an awesome concert with Julia, my best friend since preschool). I had a LIFE!

At least, I did until my parents announced we were taking a family vacation. A mandatory family vacation. No exceptions, no excuses.

And where were we going on this fabulous trip my younger siblings and I were being forced into? London? Paris? The Eastern Seaboard? No. The parental units were dragging us off to a moldering old house on the shore of Keuka Lake in upstate New York.

It’s been in my family for over a century, Dad explained as we boarded the plane in Tulsa.

Great, I thought, struggling not to say anything out loud. Mom had already lectured me on the dangers of negativity. We’re probably going to have to spend the summer repairing the roof.

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