The Cry of the Lake

A murder. A mermaid. A memory buried deep beneath the surface.

When six-year-old Cassie sneaks out to catch a mermaid, she finds something far more terrifying—a dead body by the lake. In the chaos that follows, Cassie and her older sister Emily vanish into hiding, leaving a shattered family and a secret no one dares speak aloud.

Years later, Cassie—now known as Lily—is mute, haunted by nightmares of weeping water spirits and forgotten violence. Emily, renamed Grace, is trying desperately to g...