What the River Buries

<p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Seventeen-year-old Natalie feels like a stranger to herself. Since her dad's death she's withdrawn from her mom and her best friend Marisa hardly recognizes her. She loses her job. She's failing half her classes. But Nat doesn't ask for help doesn't want to burden anyone. Instead she retreats to an off-limits riverside forest-known as the Acres-where she snaps photos and makes sketches seeking peace. But one night this peace is shattered by the nightmare of a lifetime.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>A young woman is shrouded in a tarp. Dead. A man in black is disposing of the body and when Natalie photographs the tattoo on his neck it's only by a hair's breadth that she escapes. Marisa begs her to go to the cops but Nat's stubbornness holds her back.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Then the killer delivers her sketchbook. To her door. Unseen.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Inside is a note. Going to the police he says would be a grave error. Leave it alone he promises and he'll leave her alone too.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>But Natalie can't leave it alone. Deep into the tangled web of clues she runs and the closer she gets to her foe the more protected he seems. As she chases an elusive justice her life and the lives close to her will be changed forever.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>If they don't end first. </span></p>