Unloched

A boy. A boat. A storm. One day that will tear a family apart.Two sisters are reunited but for how long? Can their fragile relationship survive once the secrets of the past are finally unlocked?A mothers dying wish sends twin sisters Lauren and Trina back to the place of their childhood vacations on the Gippsland Lakes to restore and sell a dilapidated houseboat. Although the twins were almost inseparable throughout childhood a wild storm and the events that followed drove the girls apart in their teenage years. Now ten years later Lauren and Trina are forced to face each other and themselves as they discover the role their mother played in their estrangement. As the houseboat is gradually stripped bare so are the lives of these women as the truth emerges.A story of secrets and betrayal Unloched takes the reader on an emotional journey through the landscape of the family. Commended in the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards for an unpublished manuscript this is Candice Lemon-Scotts debut novel.