Lost Lambs

by Madeline Cash · 2026

Meet the Flynns, a family in spectacular freefall. Since Bud and Catherine opened up their marriage, no one can remember the last time a meal was cooked, a load of laundry done, or a social code abided by. Their three daughters orbit in chaotic spirals: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; and brilliant young Harper is being packed off to wilderness reform camp for insisting that someone—or something—is monitoring the town's citizens. Looming over their small coastal community is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire with a reputation for corruption that no one dares investigate. No one except Harper. Her obsession with Alabaster's machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy that may just, finally, bring them closer together. A hilarious, compassionate, and fiendishly readable novel that turns family dysfunction into an art form, Lost Lambs is an operatic, strange, and profound story about the ties that bind—even when they're fraying.