Beneath Still, Dark Water

Description

The towns aren’t the only things disappearing…so are the girls.

Western Massachusetts, 1938. As the state prepares to flood the Swift River Valley to create the Quabbin Reservoir, the once-thriving community has become a ghost town. With most homes and businesses burned to the ground in preparation, each day brings more departures.

Seventeen-year-old Harrison “Brick” Bricker remains behind. Stuck in a dead-end job and facing an uncertain future, he is drawn into a hidden world of privilege and power after a chance encounter with the alluring Sadie Rose Parish.

When a local girl vanishes and Brick uncovers disturbing secrets tied to one of the valley’s most influential families, the young lovers become caught in the crosshairs of a killer. In a valley already condemned to disappear beneath the rising waters, some people will do anything to ensure their sins vanish with it.

But secrets have a way of floating to the surface. Twenty-five years later, Brick’s alcohol-ravaged memories begin to return, forcing him to confront what really happened before the dark waters settled over the valley he once called home.

Perfect for fans of Sharon Short’s Trouble Island and Kate Alice Marshall’s What Lies in the Woods, Beneath Still, Dark Water is a haunting historical suspense novel inspired by the real towns lost beneath the Quabbin Reservoir.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Stephen Paul Sayers
Published: 06/23/2026
Publisher: Milford House Press
ISBN: 9798888194546
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 0.59″ H x 9.00″ L x 6.00″ W

About the Author
Sayers, Stephen Paul: – Stephen Paul Sayers is the top-10 Amazon bestselling author of The Caretakers horror trilogy: A Taker of Morrows, The Soul Dweller, and The Immortal Force. As a college professor and research scientist, Stephen yields to the left-brain world of data analysis and statistics by day but releases the demons in his slightly twisted right-brain by night. It gets confusing around dusk when neither side is in control. Jet-setting between New England and the Midwest-well, more like driving back and forth in an RV-he divides his time between Columbia, MO and Plymouth, MA thinking up scary stories and watching classic horror films with his ill-behaved dog, Ollie. Visit Steve at stephenpaulsayers.com or reach out on Facebook: facebook.com/stephenpaulsayers; Twitter: twitter.com/SayersAuthor; or Instagram: instagram.com/stephenpaulsayer