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Beneath Still Waters: A Novel of Secrets, Obsession, and the Love That Uncovered the Truth
Paperback
Publisher: Sandeep Rao
Published: Mar 24 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.33 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
They told her the husband did it. The evidence told a different story.
When investigative journalist Harper Sinclair arrives in the fog-drenched coastal town of Coldwater Cove, she's running from her own demons - a near-fatal car accident that shattered her sense of safety and left her unable to sleep without the lights on.
She's here to write about Elena Blackwell - a talented painter who vanished from the cliffs three years ago. No body. No blood. No answers. Just a pair of white sneakers placed neatly at the cliff's edge and a husband the whole town has already convicted.
Noah Blackwell hasn't left. Hasn't sold the house. Hasn't stopped walking the cliff path every night at 2 a.m., placing flowers where his wife's shoes were found.
The world calls him a murderer.
Harper isn't so sure.
Because the shoes were clean. Too clean. And a detail buried on page forty-seven of the police report tells a story no one bothered to read.
As Harper digs deeper, she uncovers hidden paintings, a stalker disguised as a friend, and a conspiracy of silence that has protected a killer for three years. But the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she gets to Noah - a man whose grief is either the most honest thing she's ever witnessed or the most dangerous performance she's ever fallen for.
And someone in Coldwater Cove wants her to stop looking.
⚠️ A warning carved in the earth. A love that defies every rule. A truth buried beneath still waters.
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