An Evening with Sara Rath

Join us for an evening with Manawa native and award-winning author, Sara Rath. Sara will discuss her latest novel, Accidental Summer the third book in the popular Star Lake Northwoods saga.

About the Author: Sara Rath is the author of the Star Lake series and many other works of fiction and non-fiction. A native of Manawa, she has been recognized with numerous fellowships and awards. Sara draws inspiration from her family’s deep ties to the Northwoods and her experiences in Wisconsin.

From the Publisher:
MINERAL POINT, Wis. — Dive into another Star Lake mystery with award-winning author Sara Rath in her newest novel, “Accidental
Summer” published by Wisconsin publisher Little Creek Press. The third in Rath’s popular “Star Lake” Northwoods saga, “Accidental
Summer” invites readers to travel “North of Highway 8” with reporter Jenny Burgess, as she reinvestigates the 100-year-old gruesome
murder of a “Lady of the Evening” and discovers a dark and unfamiliar side of Wisconsin’s history.

Weaving historical truth with modern-day suspense, Rath throws her middle-aged protagonist quite literally into an “accidental summer” spent recuperating at The Last Resort with its rugged owner and a cast of hardened and eclectic Northwoods characters. “Accidental Summer” is an unveiling of both the Northwoods’ sordid sex trafficking past and present and of the Northwoods itself. The novel centers around Jenny’s investigation into the true mystery tied to a time when Chicago gangsters roamed the Pinery, and teenaged girls— kidnapped and brought North—were kept in stockades and made to serve miners and lumberjacks. Following the crumbs of a mystery past, Jenny and her Star Lake companions wind their way through neglected cottages, strip clubs, and the local archives to a modern-day Northwoods that no one can afford to ignore.