Beneath Still Waters: A Novel of Secrets, Obsession, and the Love That Uncovered Truth

They told her the husband did it. The evidence told a different story.When investigative journalist Harper Sinclair arrives in the fog-drenched coastal town of Coldwater Cove, she's running from her own demons - a near-fatal car accident that shattered her sense of safety and left her unable to sleep without the lights on.She's here to write about Elena Blackwell - a talented painter who vanished from the cliffs three years ago. No body. No blood. No answers. Just a pair of white sneakers placed neatly at the cliff's edge and a husband the whole town has already convicted.Noah Blackwell hasn't left. Hasn't sold the house. Hasn't stopped walking the cliff path every night at 2 a.m., placing flowers where his wife's shoes were found.The world calls him a murderer.Harper isn't so sure.Because the shoes were clean. Too clean. And a detail buried on page forty-seven of the police report tells a story no one bothered to read.As Harper digs deeper, she uncovers hidden paintings, a stalker disguised as a friend, and a conspiracy of silence that has protected a killer for three years. But the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she gets to Noah - a man whose grief is either the most honest thing she's ever witnessed or the most dangerous performance she's ever fallen for.And someone in Coldwater Cove wants her to stop looking. A warning carved in the earth. A love that defies every rule. A truth buried beneath still waters.

Pagina's: 156, Paperback, Sandeep Rao