Beneath Still, Dark Water

Western Massachusetts, 1938. As the state prepares to flood the region to create Quabbin Reservoir, the once-thriving community is now a ghost town, with most residents long gone. Seventeen-year-old Harrison Bricker isn’t one of them, working a dead-end job and facing an uncertain future. But a chance encounter with the alluring Sadie Rose Parish thrusts ‘Brick’ into a hidden world of privilege, power—and murder. After stealing her affections from wealthy suitor, Loomis Sims, Brick stumbles upon a disturbing secret that places the young lovers in the crosshairs of a killer. In a condemned land where the powerful make the rules, Brick must take down its most influential family or vanish forever beneath the gathering flood waters. But the town’s darkest secrets—those already hidden beneath the murky waters—won’t surface for another twenty-five years.