The Lake Vacation

By Nosin Lintom

George, and accountant, Emma, his beloved stay-at-home wife, with his two children, Sam and Jeff, all set off on a lake vacation to the beautiful Lake Simon to try and reconnect as a family. Upon their arrival, they are met with beautiful scenery and kind people. All seemed well and perfect. But as time went on, things started to shift, and soon, the family found themselves in a battle for their lives. Nothing was as it seemed in this quaint little lake town, but it was too bad that the Walden family had to find out the hard way. Will they be able to escape this nightmare alive, or will they become a victim to the beauty and the beast that lies below?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lee Foreman
• Release date: Aug 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9780463893678

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The Lake Vacation

Nosin Lintom

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Chapter One-The Hum Drum

Gotta go!, Sam exclaimed as she grabbed a piece of almost burnt toast and taking a big gulp of orange juice from her favorite glass that was sitting on the round, glass family breakfast table.

Don’t forget your project, honey, her mom, Emma shouted from the laundry room.

Emma had been a stay-at-home wife and mom for twenty years after marrying her extremely successful accountant husband, George Sturnman.

It was Thursday, and the home was in a loud ruckus. Sam, a quiet 17-year-old was finishing her senior year in high school, Jeff was in his junior year and was a promising football player. He had already had two local universities offer him scholarships to play linebacker on their teams.

Jeff, as always, took his sweet time eating his hefty breakfast consisting of three eggs, three slices of heavily buttered toast, and four strips of crispy bacon. That would be all washed down with a tall glass of high pulp orange juice. George, the patriarch of the family, could be found pacing back and forth in front of their stainless-steel French door fridge taking early video meetings on his iPad.

George had gone to college, majoring in Accounting at Carver University. He had met his now wife, Emma while he was a sophomore, and she, a newcoming freshman. For George, it had been love at first sight. Her striking brown eyes, shining brunette hair, and lean athletic body had managed to draw him before she had even known he’d existed. However, when she had finally been introduced to him, during a golf club meeting, the feelings weren’t mutual.

In fact, she was interested in another guy at the time. She had gone to this college at her mother’s begging (as it had been her alma mater), and strongly desired to see her daughter walk that same stage. Emma, at first, had thought George had a large ego, and wanted it stroked by others around him. She wasn’t impressed with his popularity, his wittiness, and his charm that seemed to have women wanting to cling to him like flies on honey. For the first six months, Emma had declined any advances George had made towards her. She’d even had a short fling with someone she had gone to high school with; but that had quickly ended once she realized that he had left his brain in the eleventh grade.

Right before Summer break, Emma reluctantly gave George a chance after he obnoxiously sent three dozen roses to her dorm room just because he could. She had thought that it would be a short fling, and that he would just move on once he had found someone else that he was more attracted to or more interested in. But that day never came; and it still hasn’t come twenty years later. The joke had been on her.

Now, she watched from the laundry room, folding hot, crisp white towels, as they all scurried along to separate into their own lives for eight hours. She would be left alone to tend to the massive five-bedroom home and run a few errands that her family relied on her to run. She smiled as her loving husband finished off his last meeting and shimmied over to her