The Weight of Still Water

Vivian Calloway hasn't set foot in her hometown in fifteen years. Now she's driving back through the rain with nothing but a duffel coat and a reason she won't say out loud, her mother's death has finally called her home. But the town she left has been swallowed by something darker than grief. A woman's body has surfaced in the still waters of Calloway Lake. Sheriff Eleanor Briggs is calling it a drowning accident, but Vivian knows the dead woman, the local schoolteacher who knew too much about the wrong people. As she begins asking questions, the walls go up fast. Her sister Maeve won't meet her eyes, and her brother Lucas has built a quiet life she barely recognizes. Her younger sister Mira has vanished into the orbit of August Ridge, a charming drifter with secrets of his own. The town's powerful Monaghan family, including heir Cassius Monaghan Jr., seems untouchable. Even Father Damian Asher at the church hedges when Vivian comes to call. Only Thea, her oldest friend, Sienna Ortega, a sharp-eyed journalist, and Wren Calder, the dead woman's sister, seem willing to help. But they warn her the same thing: some families protect their own by burying the evidence. As another storm gathers over the lake and Vivian digs deeper into what really happened the night the teacher died, she realizes the truth won't just cost her the family she's only just returned to, it may cost her life. The still water has been waiting. And it knows what she's about to find.