What We Buried Beneath the Water

Eleven years ago, they buried someone beneath the water. They never buried what they felt for each other.

Bellwether, 1990. Eighteen-year-old Daniel Mercer is saving to leave a town where everyone knows his place. Nathan Hale is the gifted young pastor whose voice fills the church-and whose attention makes Daniel feel seen. Their secret love offers a glimpse of another life.

Then one rain-soaked night leaves them in a boat, with a body between them and a silence they will carry for years.

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