The Cry of the Lake

<p><strong>A murder. A mermaid. A memory buried deep beneath the surface.</strong></p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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 give them both a new life. But when a girl's body is found by the lake and an innocent man is accused the past resurfaces with chilling force.</p><p></p><p>Flo the accused man's daughter is determined to uncover the truth. But in a world of lies manipulations and warped love nothing is as it seems. As the stories of two broken girls collide a buried skeleton is unearthed-and with it a reckoning decades in the making.</p><p></p><p><strong>A dark and disturbing tale of fractured identities inherited trauma and the devastating cost of silence-<em>The Cry of the Lake</em> will grip fans of Erin Kelly Louise Jensen and Ruth Ware.</strong></p>