AlisonLaunter
Twenty years ago, four teenagers survived a nightmare that changed Southport forever.
Before the bloodshed, before the Fisherman came for them, Barry Cox and Helen Shivers secretly gave up their newborn daughter for adoption, believing they were too young to give her the life she deserved. At the same time, haunted by guilt and fearing the killer stalking them, Julie James and Ray Bronson made the heartbreaking decision to place their infant son with another family.
The truth died with Barry and Helen... or so everyone believed.
Now, Madelyn Grace Carter, a successful true-crime podcaster, arrives in Southport hoping to uncover the real story behind the infamous Fisherman murders. Across town, Ethan Brooks, a rookie sheriff's deputy, begins his first day under Sheriff Ray Bronson, unaware that the man training him is his biological father.
When both receive anonymous messages revealing the identities of their birth parents, they are drawn into a deadly game someone has spent decades preparing. As old secrets resurface, forgotten lies are exposed, and another killer dons the infamous rain slicker and hook, Madelyn and Ethan discover that the Fisherman's legacy never truly ended-it simply waited for the next generation.
With friends disappearing, cryptic messages appearing, and the line between ally and killer growing thinner by the hour, the children of Southport's darkest secret must uncover who is behind the new murders before history repeats itself.
Because in Southport...
Some secrets never stay buried.
And someone still knows what they did last summer.