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When the Lake Whispers: Blackwater, Book One
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 350
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
HER BROTHER DROWNED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
THE LAKE HAS BEEN KEEPING HIM EVER SINCE.
In 1957, forty-seven miners broke through a wall of ancient black stone beneath Blackwater, Pennsylvania.
None of them came up.
That winter, for the only time in history, the lake did not freeze.
Now journalist Lena Vale is back in town for one reason: to bury her mother, who walked into Blackwater Lake in the middle of the night, wearing her slippers.
Lena hasn't looked at that water in eleven years. Not since the summer she was nine, when her little brother went down to the lake... and only she came back.
But in Blackwater, the dead don't stay quiet.
Lake water beads on her mother's skin inside the casket.
An unplugged radio plays a song Lena has never heard, yet somehow knows every word.
Every photo of her brother has been cut from the family albums.
A child-height spiral is carved into the basement wall.
And the smiling congregation who called her mother sweetheart in her final months, the Listeners, won't stop watching her.
Her mother left behind nine cassette tapes and a brass key. Together they lead to a truth Blackwater has buried for a century: something lives beneath the lake. It doesn't just take people. It takes pieces of them. Their voices. Their love. Their names.
And it still has her brother.
To bring him home, Lena must face the guilt she has carried for half her life, defy the people who have fed the lake for generations, and do what no one has ever survived:
Walk into the water, and go all the way down.
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