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The Bell Beneath Jocassee
Paperback
Series: The Horsepasture, Book 2
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: J.R. Glenn
Published: Apr 18 2026
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The lake was never empty.
When a rare drawdown exposes the drowned bones of old Horsepasture beneath Lake Jocassee, people in The Wilds start telling the same stories they have always told-about swallowed farms, buried church grounds, lost roads, and things the water remembers better than the living do.
Then a local boy disappears.
After Eli Mercer finds an empty jon boat drifting in the fog and Boone Cutter uncovers human remains in the lake mud, Sheriff Amos Weatherby is forced to reopen an old disappearance tied to the valley before it was flooded. Nora Talley watches fear spread from shoreline rumor into the classroom, while Jase Galloway begins to realize his own family may be bound to the secret at the center of it all.
But the truth waiting under Jocassee is not just an old mountain legend.
It is a buried crime.
As exposed records, hidden church relics, and long-silenced names begin to surface, the people of Horsepasture discover that someone in the present is still willing to threaten, lie, and spill blood to keep the past from daylight. What began as a mystery in the fog becomes a reckoning over stolen land, inherited corruption, and the kind of local betrayal a community can hide for generations-until the dead finally force the living to answer.
The Bell Beneath Jocassee is a moody Appalachian suspense novel about memory, family, buried truth, and what happens when the water gives something back.
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