THE THREE HOURS SHE CAN'T REMEMBER: Atmospheric & Suspenseful

Twelve years ago, Claire Whitfield left Ashford Hollow the night her best friend Grace Sutton vanished, and she has spent every year since trying to forget what she cannot quite remember. When a summer drought drains Blackwater Lake to its bones, it surrenders human remains, and the sheriff's department calls Claire home to identify what is left of the girl she once loved like a sister. Coming home means facing Nathaniel Hollis, the boy she left behind, now the detective assigned to a case that was never supposed to reopen. It means facing the Suttons, the family that built the town and buried its secrets beneath the water along with Grace. And it means facing the gap in Claire's own memory: three hours on graduation night she has never been able to account for, three hours the new evidence suggests she may not want to recover. As old loyalties fracture and new lies surface, Claire realizes the town has been keeping more than one secret, and that the truth about Grace's death might implicate someone she still loves. Some things sink. Some things wait. Some things the lake was never meant to give back.