An Unfamiliar Guest (1)

A mysterious widow. A distraught mother. A pristine island in the Pacific Northwest filled with secrets, deception, and duplicity. Meaghan Farren, a distraught widow, speeds from Massachusetts to Lorissa Orondo's home in the Pacific Northwest, hoping to make amends for cruelty back in college. Lorissa, a frustrated mother of teenagers, is coming undone. Her music career, propelled by her Juilliard education, falters; her teenage children are driving her crazy; and her absentee husband constantly travels for work. Still, the two old friends reconcile when Meaghan confesses the family secrets that led to her ruthlessness two decades earlier.Meaghan settles in an apartment on Lorissa's island, starts an accounting business, and falls in love with her sexy neighbor. As in real life, nothing is as it seems. Meaghan abruptly moves to La Serena, Chile where she meditates and communes with nature. Secrets are revealed, a man is shot, and to Lorissa's horror, police arrest her son for shooting an unarmed man in order to steal opioids. Lorissa knows her son is a trouble maker, but she can't believe he'd shoot anyone. In a saga that leads from Massachusetts to Washington state to La Serena, Chile, An Unfamiliar Guest is a story of friendships, suspicion, and intrigue with twists that will shock even the most astute reader.