Where The Water Keeps Secrets

On the last night of school, seventeen-year-old Olivia Hart gets into a car she never should have entered.

One crash.
One funeral.
One small town that decides she's to blame.

Harper was driving. Harper was drunk. Harper is dead.

And Liv is the girl who lived.

Branded by whispers and court-ordered consequences, Liv is sent ten hours away to spend the summer with an aunt she barely knows - to a quiet lakeside cottage where the water is deep enough to bury guilt.

But exile doesn't feel like peace.

Not when the boy next door watches her like he already knows her story.

Not when his reputation is as sharp as the rumors that follow him.

Not when she's on parole and one mistake could cost her everything.

Liv is a good girl.

She made one bad choice.

But sometimes survival is its own kind of sentence.

And this summer, the water is about to decide what she deserves.