SOME SECRETS DON'T STAY BURIED. SOME DON'T STAY DEAD.
Ten years ago, Elaine Scott left Lakewood Prep and never looked back. She left behind the lake, the boathouse, and the memory of the girl who tormented her, the girl she believed she and Brian had left to drown in the dark water one predawn morning. She built a life, a marriage, a silence she mistook for peace.
Then Brian is murdered. And the silence breaks.
Returning to Lake Placid to uncover the truth about her husband's death, Elaine finds herself pulled back into the world she escaped, the ivy-covered walls of Lakewood Prep, the cold still water of the lake, and a decade-old mystery that was never truly solved. Because Amber's body was never found. And when a piece of expensive jewelry surfaces on an adrift rowboat, Elaine begins to understand that everything she and Brian believed about that morning was wrong.
Someone else was there. Someone with far more to lose.
As Elaine digs deeper into Brian's final discovery, a generations-old murder, a corrupt cover-up, and a powerful family willing to kill to protect its name, the past begins to manifest in ways she cannot explain. Amber is back. In her dreams. On the dock. Bleeding the dark water of her death.
And she is not here to haunt Elaine.
She is here to lead her to the truth.
For fans of Freida McFadden and Gone Girl.
"A powerhouse of emotions that will make your pulse pound." - Goodreads Reviewer "Suspenseful read and definitely a page turner." - Goodreads Reviewer "This psychological thriller kept me in its grip until the very end. The story had some great twists with palpable tension that made it hard to put down." - Goodreads Reviewer