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Beneath the Surface
Paperback
Publisher Price: $27.49
Publisher: Carrier Press
Published: Jul 9 2026
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some truths don't stay buried.
Investigative journalist Nora Sutton left Cedar Hollow at eighteen, the summer her sister Lily vanished from the shores of Lake Halcyon. She built a career telling other people's secrets and never once faced her own, and she swore she would never go back to the little mountain town that swallowed the only person who ever truly knew her.
Then the rain stops. A record drought drains the lake to its lowest level in a hundred years, and in the cracked mud of the new lakebed a sunken car returns to the light. There is a body inside.
Nora goes home certain the water has finally given up her sister. It hasn't. The remains belong to Danny Keller, a young man the town spent two decades insisting simply skipped his debts and left, who died the same week Lily disappeared, weighted and chained and sunk. And the deeper Nora digs, the clearer it becomes that everyone in Cedar Hollow agreed, long ago, to forget him.
A drowned boy. A family that owns the water and everyone near it. A father who made a bargain no one should survive. Partnered with an outsider sheriff who distrusts her own department's silence, Nora pulls the one thread that unravels a town. As the drought breaks and the first great storm rolls down into the basin to re-drown the evidence, she learns that the most terrible secret Lake Halcyon ever kept is not the dead it hid.
It is the living.
A propulsive, atmospheric thriller about grief, complicity, and what a community will drown to keep the peace.
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