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What the Water Holds
Paperback
Series: Forgotten Places, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 13 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She lost her mother once. The water wants to take her again.
Seven months after her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Cassie Hayes is barely holding on, and her father isn't holding on at all. Then a phone call from a blocked number, in a voice that sounds impossibly like her mom's, sends them driving through the night to a fog-bound town called Greyhaven.
In Greyhaven, the streets bend back on themselves. A church bell rings thirteen. The townspeople repeat the same morning, again and again, and have for nearly forty years. A child's shoe on the porch keeps moving. And on the notice board is a missing-person poster with Cassie's face, her name, and the scar on her jaw, dated October 14, 1987.
With the help of Eli, a strange, dry-humored boy who has been fifteen for a very long time, Cassie finds the source: a glowing pool beneath the church that holds everything the town has forgotten. It can set Greyhaven free. But it learns by taking, and what it takes from Cassie are the memories of her mother, one by one.
So Cassie keeps a secret list: Things I Know About Mom. Every morning she checks it. And every morning, more of the lines are only words.
What the Water Holds is a haunting, emotional YA mystery about grief, memory, and the fierce, ordinary love that remembers for us when we can't.
Perfect for readers of A Monster Calls, Coraline, and We Were Liars.
Book One of the Forgotten Places.
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