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Sweet Water Deep Lies
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $25.50
Publisher: Ls Creative Publishing
Published: Aug 23 2026
Pages: 506
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some summers just get hot. Some summers get heavy.
Willow Creek, 1978. A mill town where the whistle keeps better time than any clock, where everyone waves from the porch, and where the old quarry holds secrets beneath its surface. It is a town that believes itself good. Safe. Known.
It is wrong.
Fifteen years ago, a girl drowned in that quarry, and Willow Creek agreed without ever saying so out loud to call it an accident and move on. Her brother never did. When he comes home to bury what is left of his family, he brings the one question the town has spent a decade and a half refusing to answer.
He isn't the only one who came back.
She left Willow Creek young, with a suitcase and a reason she never explained, carrying grief and longing for the boy she once loved and the summer they both survived.
As the heat presses down and the water level drops, the two of them start asking the questions nobody wants asked, stirring curiosity about Willow Creek's hidden truths.
But the past has a way of surfacing. And in Willow Creek, the water keeps more than it lets on.
SWEET WATER DEEP LIES is a slow-burn Southern mystery and second-chance love story about grief, complicity, and the courage it takes to look finally, creating an immersive atmosphere for readers who love suspense and secrets.
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