The Church Beneath The Lake
A drought has exposed the one thing Mercy, Georgia was never supposed to see.
For twenty years, Lake Mercy hid the ruins of a drowned church. When the water recedes, the black steeple rises from the mud with fresh lilies at the door, candles burning inside, and a missing girl waiting near the altar.
Elise Ward vanished when she was twelve.
Now she is back.
She has not aged a day.
Journalist Mara Bell left Mercy after Elise disappeared, carrying only broken memories and a scar across her palm she was told came from a childhood accident. But when Sheriff Nolan Price sends her a photograph of the church beneath the lake, Mara is pulled back into the town that buried more than bodies.
Inside the church are clues that should not exist. A coffin with Mara's name carved into the lid. A diary written by Elise before she vanished. A secret society made of Mercy's oldest families. And a terrible truth: Elise was not the first child the lake kept.
As the water rises again, Mara must uncover what really happened the night Elise disappeared, what her own family did to save her, and why the dead keep ringing the bell beneath the lake.
Because Mercy did not drown its secrets.
It preserved them.
And now the lake wants them named.
THE CHURCH BENEATH THE LAKE is a dark, atmospheric supernatural thriller about buried guilt, small-town corruption, lost children, and the terrifying cost of silence. Perfect for readers who like gothic mysteries, haunted towns, cold-case thrillers, and page-turning suspense with a supernatural edge.
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