The Shoreline
Miles of jagged rock and dense spruce, cut off from major highways for five months of the year. In Greywake, outsiders are noticed instantly, and locals rarely volunteer answers.
“Some secrets freeze. Others wait.”
When an early winter freeze locks the northern cove of Lake Greywake, a body is discovered preserved beneath clear black ice. She was not a stranger to this shoreline, but in a town built around long winters and quiet pacts, no one wants to admit who she is.
Resting near her shoulder is a single clue that should not be there: a pair of glasses with dark red frames, intact and undamaged. Glasses that belong to someone still living in the community above.
As Senior Investigator Nolan Rell and Detective Tessa Ward begin asking questions, the silence hardens. The lake water has kept its secret, and someone in Greywake will do anything to keep the truth cold.
A remote northern enclave where winter is not just a season, it is an accomplice.
Miles of jagged rock and dense spruce, cut off from major highways for five months of the year. In Greywake, outsiders are noticed instantly, and locals rarely volunteer answers.
When the temperature drops below zero, the lake freezes in layers, preserving whatever sinks beneath it until the thaw decides what the town must face.
From old timber fortunes to longstanding family disputes, every cabin along the perimeter holds a quiet pact to protect its own.
An atmospheric detective novel of cold isolation, buried history, and secrets that refuse to stay hidden.
As winter storms threaten to close the roads into Lake Greywake, Senior Investigator Nolan Rell and Detective Tessa Ward race to uncover the truth before the weather cuts the town off completely. Every question exposes decades of carefully guarded silence, and the deeper they dig, the clearer one fact becomes: someone in Greywake will kill again to keep the past cold.