Widow's Lake

In the summer of 1943, nine-year-old Sam Hargrove goes fishing with his older brother and comes back alone. What follows is a carefully constructed lie-a forged letter, a story of enlistment, and years of silence buried beneath the still surface of Widow's Lake.

But secrets don't stay sunken forever.

As Sam grows older, guilt erodes the edges of his world. A witness he never saw watches from the trees. A sheriff who sees too much begins asking quiet questions. And when the old boat resurfaces years later, tangled in the same net that dragged Lucas under, the truth begins to rise.

Told in haunting, measured prose, Widow's Lake is a chilling coming-of-age story about violence, silence, and what we owe the dead.