Lucy Beringer and The Tomb Beneath The Tide

Lucy Beringer is falling apart. And no one seems to notice.

Not when she stopped trying.
Not when the school called.
Not even when the words that used to protect her started turning against her.

So she was exiled to a windswept island with a father who hadn't looked her in the eye in months.
"To help you find balance," he says.
But Lucy isn't looking for balance.
She just wants someone to see her before she's gone completely.

Instead, she finds a ruined chapel.
A spiral carved in stone.
A notebook that writes in her voice when she's not holding the pen.
And an overwhelming feeling that something underneath the island is listening.

She's not the first to disappear here.
But maybe she'll be the first to come back.

A psychologically layered mystery told through dual threads of third-person narrative and cryptic journal fragments.
For readers who loved Coraline, The Lie Tree, or The Secret of Nightingale Wood.