A Cabin in the Woods (a novel)

A Cabin in the Woods: a love story (novel, 124 pages)

In 1951, young Lily and Adam fall in love, marry, and move into the cabin Adam has built for them, atop a hill overlooking a peaceful, secluded lake. But the couple is separated when Adam is called to serve in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Lily gives birth to their daughter, Rose, and is devastated when her husband is killed in the war. She leaves the cabin with her toddler daughter, not to return. Although she remarries, her heart belongs to Adam. After Lily's death, decades later, Rose discovers the cabin and the father she never knew. While reading her mother's diary and her father's love letters from war, Rose finds her true identity and the timeless love of her parents, and she comes to terms with her grief of having lost them both as well as having lost her own son to war. Rose falls in love with Robert, who had grown up spending summers at this lakeside cabin with his parents and a childhood friend, and who has returned to this idyllic place from his youth to deal with the death of that friend.