Women's Bible Study

Ladies of the Lake by Cathy Gohlke
When she is forced to leave her beloved Prince Edward Island to attend Lakeside Ladies Academy after
the death of her parents, the last thing Adelaide Rose MacNeill expects to find is three kindred spirits.
The Ladies of the Lake, as the four girls call themselves, quickly bond like sisters, vowing that wherever
life takes them, they will always be there for each other. But that is before: Before love and jealousy
come between Adelaide and Dorothy, the closest of the friends. Before the dawn of World War I upends
their world and casts baseless suspicion onto the German American man they both love. Before a
terrible explosion in Halifax Harbor rips the sisterhood irrevocably apart. Seventeen years later, Rosaline
Murray receives an unsuspecting telephone call from Dorothy, now headmistress of Lakeside, inviting
her to attend the graduation of a new generation of girls, including Rosaline's beloved daughter. With
that call, Rosaline is drawn into a past she'd determined to put behind her. To memories of a man she
once loved . . . of a sisterhood she abandoned . . . and of the day she stopped being Adelaide MacNeill