Lake House

In the same week in June, Samantha Sophia Schwerin celebrates her 22nd birthday alone, graduates from college, and has a great fortune bestowed upon her through unfortunate circumstances. For the past four years, she has been beset by attorneys, investigators, bankers, and questionable friends. She has glimpsed a part of a world she had never imagined.

Alone and apprehensive in a sea of humanity, contrary to the worldview her parents were nurturing, she seeks refuge in books.

On vacation at...