In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged.

When small-town athlete Averys morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crooks Falls have long forgotten.

The black water has been waiting. Watching. Hungry for the souls it needs to survive.

Avery can smell the water, see it flooding everywhere; she thinks she’s losing her mind. And as the black water haunts Averytaking a new form each timepeople in town begin to go missing.

Though Avery had heard whispers of monsters from her Kanienkha:ka (Mohawk) relatives, she has never really connected to her Indigenous culture or understood the stories. But the Elders she has distanced herself from now may have the answers she needs.

When Key, her best friend and longtime crush, is the next to disappear, Avery is faced with a choice: listen to the Kanienkha:ka and save the town but lose her friend foreveror listen to her heart and risk everything to get Key back.

An unmissable horror novel for readers who devoured Trang Thanh Trans She Is a Haunting or Claire Legrands Sawkill Girls!

Hardcover | Ages 13+ | 336 pages | 5.50″ x 8.25″