Lara Meredith


Canadian Author

Novels

Novels


THUNDER BRIDGE

Just when you think you're safe...

Wren Fern inherited two life-changing gifts the night her grandmother died: a sixth sense forewarning her of impending death and an isolated farmhouse at the foot of Thunder Bridge. Scarred by a violent past, Wren wastes no time transforming the property into Willow House, a financially struggling women's shelter for victims fleeing domestic violence. While Wren acts as a lightning rod between the women and their abusive partners, she's forced to make a choice when a battered woman arrives who jeopardizes the security of the remote shelter. Though Wren has vowed never to turn anyone away, it doesn't take long before a series of unnerving events beset the refuge, and as the encounters become more menacing, the evidence is undeniable: a stalker has set their sights on Willow House.

Things unravel when a troubled resident with a shocking secret disappears in the middle of a windswept night, leaving behind a mystery―and an enraged ex-husband. As Willow House shifts into a lockdown, a chain of devastating events threaten Wren's attempts to save her shelter, and her life.

As a shadowy menace lurks within the unsuspecting halls of her beloved Willow, Wren must protect her residents while she figures out who is in danger―and who is the danger, because not everyone entering the shelter is looking for a safe haven.


A Branch in Spring

A tangle of secrets, a life-changing decision and two families determined to withhold what was never theirs to keep.

Shaken by the fallout from an ominous story, journalist Rayna Westcott seeks refuge on her family’s horse breeding farm for Thanksgiving. When an unnerving event leaves her emotionally stranded and confronting a cache of simmering regrets, the plan becomes simple; face her demons, reinvent her career, and run back to the city.

Despite warnings, she naïvely moves into Raspberry Cottage, a dwelling on the back of the Westcott estate. Although it offers temporary shelter to revive an old dream, it sits adjacent to Charlotte and Trent Jackson’s home, awakening thoughts of young love and roads not taken. Rayna soon finds it difficult not to notice the seemingly happy life of the Jacksons.

But when Rayna uncovers a web of deceit, destined to crack the foundations beneath the two families, the unthinkable happens.

Bio


Lara is a Canadian writer who lives in the Greater Toronto Area with her amazing husband and a demanding pug named Charlie Brown.

Lara Meredith writes touching stories that revolve around flawed but loveable characters that break readers' hearts. She dreams of having her own Raspberry Cottage, where she could while away the days writing her next tearjerker.

When Lara is not writing, she can be found sprawled out on the wicker furniture in her gazebo with a cup of hot rhubarb tea, hiking in the Ontario Conservation Parks or crying over an old black & white movie… that she’s watched for the fifteenth time.

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