A Gripping Murder Mystery Novel.A missing girl. A silent village. A lake that remembers everything. Northern England, 1949. When a fifteen-year-old girl vanishes from a remote lakeside village, Inspector Jack Smith is sent to investigate - but the locals insist she never existed at all.Fog, pine woods and water that swallows secrets whole.Every question Jack asks is met with silence, fear, or lies.The deeper he digs, the more the village closes in - as if the truth itself is forbidden. Something is buried beneath the surface.Something no one wants uncovered. A chilling, atmospheric mystery about memory, guilt, and the secrets people drown to keep.