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Marilyn Dekker has no roots. As a child, she learned that home could vanish overnight—her parents sometimes dragging her from bed into the dark, a packed car waiting in the driveway. Adulthood offered no refuge. Her husband’s career required frequent moves. Every few years, another house, a new town. She didn’t want that nomadic lifestyle for her kids.

So, when the opportunity comes to settle permanently among the lush hills, freshwater creeks, and quiet ponds of Northern Pennsylvania, she readily agrees. But when two strangers on ATVs nearly kill her, Marilyn learns she is no stranger in these parts.

With her arrival, she has unknowingly awakened dangerous family secrets that people will kill to protect. Marilyn has a choice: She can escape, like her parents did, and raise her children on the run; or she can unravel the mystery of her parents’ past, risking her own life and lives of her husband and children to end the cycle of fear.

Praise for Lori Duffy Foster

"SPRING MELT is a gripping courtroom drama where every truth feels like a thin layer of ice—beautiful, fragile, and one step from cracking wide open. Lori Duffy Foster builds tension with the quiet inevitability of rising water, until everything breaks loose in the final verdict." —Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

“Lori Duffy Foster weaves a delicate dance between truth, crime, and victims that keeps readers involved and guessing about motivations, outcomes, and long-kept secrets.” —D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

"SPRING MELT is a riveting story of justice, forgiveness, and redemption, in which revelations about past crimes and long-buried secrets unfold with nail-biting intensity. …  Though the conclusion is deeply satisfying, I was sorry to turn the last page. It was that good." —Lori Robbins, award-winning author of the On Pointe Mysteries

"A captivating story you won’t want to put down." —Cathi Stoler, bestselling author of the Nick Donahue Adventures

"A gripping mystery and courtroom drama steeped in Adirondack history and filled with characters whose grief, longing, and love leap off the page.” — Becker, award-winning author of The Revolutionary War mysteries