Ocean of Secrets by Katie Winters

The Whitmore secrets reach a breaking point before an explosive revelation: who was really responsible for the fire that destroyed the White Oak Lodge?

Alexander Whitmore fled Nantucket Island just days after the blaze that consumed his family’s prized White Oak Lodge. His escape — painful as it was — had been years in the making. For as long as he could remember, Alexander had wanted out. He despised his parents’ arrogance and their unrelenting demand that he take over the Lodge, a life he never wanted.

Alexander’s dreams had always been different. He wanted to be a pilot, to soar above the clouds and escape the weight of the Whitmore legacy. He never expected to fall in love beneath the sprawling dark starry skies over the Lodge, or to lose everything because of it.

Now, at fifty-one, Alexander’s past refuses to stay buried. For years, someone has been threatening him — someone who knows what really happened at the Lodge that fateful Fourth of July in 1998. His job, his reputation, even his family are at risk. When his wife announces she’s leaving and taking their children, Alexander hits rock bottom.

In a desperate search for answers, he hires a private investigator to follow the trail back to the people he swore he’d never face again — his sisters and his mother. But as the Whitmores are drawn together once more, decades of buried secrets begin to unravel.

And just when everything is about to collapse, one shocking truth changes everything.