**In New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas's Dream Lake,
readers well enter the world of Friday Harbor, an enchanting town in the
Pacific Northwest where things are not quite as they seem and where true
love might just have a ghost of a chance...
**
They say that opposites attract. But what happens when one of them has
been devastated by betrayal and the other is so damaged and jaded that
his heart is made of stone?
Alex Nolan is about as bitter and cynical as they come. One of three
Nolan brothers who call Friday Harbor home, he's nothing like Sam or
Mark. They actually believe in love; they think the risk of pain is
worth the chance of happiness. But Alex battles his demons with the help
of a whiskey bottle, and he lives in his own private hell. And then, a
ghost shows up. Only Alex can see him. Has Alex finally crossed over the
threshold to insanity?
Zoë Hoffman is as gentle and romantic as they come. When she meets the
startlingly gorgeous Alex Nolan, all her instincts tell her to run. Even
Alex tells her to run. But something in him calls to Zoë, and she forces
him to take a look at his life with a clear eye and to open his mind to
the possibility that love isn't for the foolish.
The ghost has been existing in the half-light of this world for decades.
He doesn't know who he is, or why he is stuck in the Nolans' Victorian
house. All he knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoë hold
the key to unlocking a mystery that keeps him trapped here.
Zoë and Alex are oil and water, fire and ice, sunshine and shadow. But
sometimes it takes only a glimmer of light to chase away the dark, and
sometimes love can reach beyond time, space, and reason to take hold of
hearts that yearn for it...
