When the Water Went Still

By Corin Lakewood

In Stillwater Ridge, the lake has always been calm.
Too calm.

When Lily Harper returns to her hometown after ten years away, she expects grief. What she doesn't expect is resistance-closed doors, quiet warnings, and a town determined to keep the past buried beneath still water.

Her father's death was ruled an accident.
The missing girls were forgotten.
And the truth was never meant to resurface.

As Lily begins pulling at the loose threads of old police reports, whispered rumors, and a night everyone refuses to remember, the town pushes back harder. Even Cole Callahan-the boy who once loved her and now wears a badge-may be caught between loyalty and justice.

But some places remember what people try to erase.

As fear spreads and the lake begins to stir, Lily discovers that Stillwater Ridge has survived for decades by sacrificing silence, belief, and sometimes lives. And once the water chooses you, it doesn't always let go.

When the Water Went Still is a haunting, slow-burn psychological thriller about buried truths, institutional corruption, generational silence, and what happens when a town's darkest story refuses to stay drowned.

Some truths don't disappear.
They wait.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GDYTTD8Y
• ISBN13: 9798242123700
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"