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Beneath the Surface: The Empty Houses of Black River
Paperback
Series: Beneath the Surface, Book 3
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
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Publisher: James Douglas
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In Black River, families disappear without packing a single box, saying goodbye, or leaving behind a missing-person report. By the next morning, strangers are living in their homes, family photographs have changed, and the entire town insists the vanished residents never existed.
When Ethan and Lila Cole receive a mysterious photograph of an empty house, they travel to Black River with their daughter, Kendra, searching for answers. Instead, they find a town already waiting for them. Residents know their names. Police possess evidence connecting Ethan to crimes he did not commit. A woman named Denice claims to be Lila's long-lost sister, and memories begin returning that Lila cannot prove are real.
As the Covenant rewrites records, alters photographs, and turns trusted people against him, Ethan is accused of involvement in the disappearances. Every attempt to expose the truth makes him appear more dangerous, unstable, and guilty. Soon, he is separated from his family and taken to a hospital where doctors, patients, and even people from his childhood seem to remember a version of his life that never happened.
While Ethan secretly investigates the institution holding him, Lila must pretend to trust Denice long enough to discover who is controlling Black River. Their only advantage is the silent language they created before arriving-a series of signals the Covenant does not fully understand.
But Black River is not simply erasing people. It is replacing them, rebuilding their lives, and creating evidence designed to destroy anyone who remembers the truth.
To save their family and expose the Covenant, Ethan and Lila must trust each other even when their memories cannot be trusted. Because in Black River, the truth does not disappear all at once.
It is rewritten one person at a time.
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