Nicole struggles to get to the hotel because of a heavy snowstorm that is hitting the county, and, while waiting for the family lawyer to attend to the final details of the sale of the now dilapidated property, she is forced to stay due to the inclement weather. However, she is also fulfilling a promise to her mother: to give part of the proceeds from the sale to Rachel's family as compensation for the pain caused by Leonard's actions. Years later, now that both of her parents have died, Nicole is returning to the hotel for the first time in a decade, to put it up for sale. Tragically, Rachel, after discovering that she was pregnant, took her own life. Ten years earlier, a teenager called Nicole left the family hotel with her mother after they found out that her father, Leonard, was having an affair with Rachel, a girl the same age as his daughter. The events herein take place in the remote Lewis and Clark County, Montana, in the early '90s.

It's around this bitter theme that the heavy-hitting plot of The Suicide of Rachel Foster intertwines. Sooner or later that pain, those ghosts from the past, those unspoken words, they can come to the surface and in turn drag blissfully ignorant souls back down into the abyss with them.

What family doesn't have them? And how many try to keep them safe and buried under layer upon layer of lies, lies, and more lies.

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