The Night the Lake Went Quiet

By CHILDER HANDS

In the deep hush of a Louisiana summer, the earth trembles and a lake swallows its own voice. Months later, Ellen returns to the water that once took everything from her: the past, her sister, and the man who tried to love her clean. What she finds is not ruin but silence, a stillness that waits to be understood.

Set in the haunting beauty of the American South, The Night the Lake Went Quiet is a story of guilt, love, and the land that refuses to forget. As Ellen unearths what the water kept hidden, she must decide whether truth is a wound or a kind of grace.

Childer Hands delivers a masterful Southern Gothic novel, rich with light, loss, and redemption, where the past moves like mist across still water and every silence has its own voice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FW5DZBVS
• ISBN13: 9798269736839
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"