Buried Secrets

Have you ever wondered what secrets the people in your life are hiding? Friends, family, neighbors, coworkers--we all have secrets. But have you ever wondered who these people really are? The mom you share a laugh with when you drop your kids off at school. The kind man who already knows how you take your cup of coffee, well before you order it every morning. Have you ever thought that the same people that brighten your day are the sinister monsters from your nightmares?

Lisa Kramer is a beautiful eighteen-year old girl, coming of age in an era of war, transition and controversy. In her conservative and affluent world, Lisa is privileged with tremendous beauty, but suffers in deep, silent pain. She is surrounded by a group of people who love her, but have given up hope that she will ever be the gentlewoman that they dream of. When Lisa suddenly vanishes, everyone in her life assumes that it is her self-destructive lifestyle that caused her absence. Sadly, Lisa never resurfaces. Forty years later, long after her older sister Melinda has moved on, a detective suddenly enters her life, with the hope of solving the old and abandoned case of Lisa Kramer. The book will then take you back and forth between past and present, learning the tragic events that make Lisa jaded and withdrawn, as well as the love that she fell into in the last known year of her existence. Ultimately, it will be revealed what happened to young Lisa and if anyone will pay the price for her stolen life.