Swan Witness

Sixteen-year-old Tess Calder expected a boring afternoon drifting across the lake in a rented plastic swan-nothing more dangerous than sunburn and silence.

Instead, she witnesses a brutal murder from the middle of the water.

Trapped in plain sight, powerless to escape, Tess locks eyes with the killer-a man who smiles, waves his blood-soaked knife... and decides she's part of the aftermath.

With no phone signal, no witnesses, and a killer who knows she saw everything, Tess must survive long enough to reach her mother-and prove she isn't imagining the terror clawing at her reality. As the search intensifies and the man begins to hunt her, Tess realizes something far worse than being unseen:

Being seen, and not believed.

A tense, claustrophobic YA thriller about survival, trauma, and the moment innocence sinks beneath the surface.