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The Girl in the Lake

A Novel

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Pub Date May 05 2026 | Archive Date May 19 2026

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Description

A young girl who claims to remember a past life draws a psychologist into a decades-old mystery in a haunting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver.

Kate Willis, consultant for the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, is tasked with interviewing six-year-old Henley Haskell about the girl’s alleged past-life recollections. The evaluation also marks a return for Kate to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and to troubling recollections of her own.

Here, twenty-four years ago, Kate’s friend Becca McGuire vanished from her bunk at a now-shuttered summer camp and was never seen again—presumably drowned in Lake Sauquamet. But the mystery of her disappearance is only deepening. Because Henley’s memories of her “other life” are ones that could only belong to Becca.

For Kate, Henley’s recurring, suffocating nightmares, and her disturbing illustrations of places she has never been, seem to spell out the unbelievable. Somewhere, somehow, the truth about what really happened to Becca is locked inside this little girl. As Henley’s uncanny memories surface, so do old secrets—each one drawing Kate inexorably back to that terrible long-ago summer by the lake.

A young girl who claims to remember a past life draws a psychologist into a decades-old mystery in a haunting novel of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver.

Kate Willis...


A Note From the Publisher

Lauren Oliver is a screenwriter, media entrepreneur, and author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, including Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem in the Delirium trilogy; Before I Fall, which was adapted into a feature film; Panic, which was adapted into an Amazon Prime series for which Lauren wrote every episode and served as executive producer; and the Replica duology. Lauren founded the IP company StoryGiants, helping to package and edit nearly one hundred other novels. She also cofounded Incantor AI, devoted to ethical treatment of IP in artificial intelligence technologies for media and entertainment. Raised in Westchester, New York, Lauren attended the University of Chicago and got her MFA from NYU. She now divides her time between Maryland and Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.laurenoliverbooks.com.

Lauren Oliver is a screenwriter, media entrepreneur, and author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, including Delirium, Pandemonium, and Requiem in the Delirium trilogy; Before I Fall, which was...


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ISBN 9781662533716
PRICE $16.99 (USD)
PAGES 321

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