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The Names Beneath the Water
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2026
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
NINETEEN NAMES WERE CARVED IN STONE.
ONE OF THEM WAS STILL ALIVE.
Paper conservator Mara Venn returns to Bellwether intending to settle her late mother's estate and leave the flood-scarred town behind. Then she discovers an ordinary receipt with an impossible date: five months after the disaster that killed her father, a woman listed among the dead bought a pair of shoes.
At the town's Memory Room, Mara finds two versions of the same evacuation record. One says the lower basin was clear. The other says seventeen people were still waiting for rescue.
As a redevelopment project closes in on the site of the old pumping station, every recovered document threatens a carefully protected story. Mara's brother has staked his future on the town's renewal. A former love knows more about the flood than he once admitted. And the dead woman's daughter has spent twenty-eight years waiting for someone to ask the right question.
When the water begins to rise again, Mara must decide how far she will go to correct the past-and what the truth will cost the people she still loves.
The Names Beneath the Water is an atmospheric literary suspense novel about family loyalty, institutional memory, and the quiet violence of an official lie. Perfect for readers who enjoy layered mysteries, emotionally complex characters, and revelations that change the meaning of everything that came before.
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