Blackwater Cove is the kind of town that survives by forgetting.
When Isla Hale returns to the coastal community she fled years ago, it’s supposed to be temporary—a quiet reckoning with a past she never fully escaped. But when a body washes ashore and the death is ruled an accident too quickly, Isla begins to see what everyone else refuses to acknowledge: this town is lying to itself.
As she digs deeper, Isla uncovers a pattern of disappearances, falsified records, and a symbol carved into sand and stone—one that appears just before lives are erased and histories rewritten. What begins as a search for the truth behind a single death becomes a descent into a vast, unseen network that decides which towns are allowed to exist… and which are quietly dismantled.
by The Lyions Den