Description
The water always told you first.
When the storm hits Blackwater Cove, Chief Dora Lavalley expects flooding, closed roads, and a long night of routine calls. What she doesn't expect is a missing sixteen-year-old boy - last seen walking toward the lake just before the bridge went under, cutting the entire town off from the outside world.
Dora has three hours before the only road out closes for good. Three hours to find a kid whose mother swears he'd never just disappear. But the closer she looks, the less this town resembles the quiet community she thought she knew. The wealthiest family on the lake is suddenly, suspiciously helpful. A contractor's paperwork doesn't add up. A man nobody wanted back in town has just returned - at the worst possible moment.
Then the bridge fails completely, sealing four hundred people inside a storm with no way to call for help.
And the water starts giving up what it's been hiding.
A retired county inspector. A concrete wall poured somewhere it was never supposed to be. A family secret that's been quietly, carefully protected for longer than the missing boy has been alive.
Every person on this lake has spent years perfecting the art of not asking questions. Dora doesn't have that luxury anymore - not with a boy's life on the line, and not with a killer somewhere on her side of the water, watching the clock right alongside her.
Because in Blackwater Cove, the truth doesn't stay buried forever.
It just waits for the flood.
She has hours before the bridge is gone for good.
She has even less time before the truth is.
A propulsive thriller about the secrets small towns keep and what it costs to finally drag them into the light. For fans of storm-bound suspense, ticking-clock mysteries, and communities where everyone is hiding something. Contains violence and dark themes. Every question gets answered - but not every
answer brings relief.
Author: Olivia Becerra
Publisher: Olivia Becerra
Published: 08/15/2026
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781088234051
ISBN10: 1088234054
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Domestic
- Fiction | Thrillers | Suspense