Some secrets sink. Others surface when you least expect them. Documentary filmmaker Maya Chen thought she was done chasing ghosts. After her award-winning series on unsolved disappearances destroyed her marriage and nearly cost her sanity, she swore off cold cases forever. But when a mysterious package arrives containing a waterlogged diary and a single photograph, Maya finds herself pulled into the most haunting mystery of her career-one that leads straight back to the summer camp where her older sister drowned twenty-three years ago. The diary belongs to Rebecca Thorne, one of three teenage girls who vanished from Camp Silverlake during the summer of 2002. The official story was straightforward: the girls snuck out for a midnight swim, got caught in a riptide, and drowned. Their bodies were never recovered-swallowed by the impossibly deep waters that gave the camp its name. The tragedy led to lawsuits, bankruptcy, and the camp's permanent closure. Case closed. But Rebecca's diary tells a different story. And Maya's sister, Lauren, was there that night. Now, armed with her camera and a producer who thinks she's lost her mind, Maya returns to the abandoned camp in remote Maine. What she finds is a community that has spent two decades protecting a lie. The camp's former director refuses to speak. The counselors from that summer have scattered, and none will return her calls. The local sheriff insists there's nothing to investigate-just a tragic accident. But Maya knows a cover-up when she sees one. And she knows her sister's death six months later was no accident either. As Maya interviews the few willing witnesses, a disturbing pattern emerges. The girls didn't drown-they were running from something. Rebecca's diary entries grow increasingly paranoid, filled with cryptic references to "the game," late-night meetings in the woods, and a counselor who "knew what we did." There are mentions of a fifth girl, someone erased from camp records. And photographs that suggest the girls stumbled onto something they were never meant to see. The more Maya uncovers, the more dangerous her investigation becomes. Her hotel room is broken into. Her equipment is sabotaged. A source winds up dead in an apparent suicide. Someone is watching, getting desperate. Because Maya isn't just investigating what happened to three girls-she's uncovered evidence of something much bigger, connecting Camp Silverlake to a network of privilege and power reaching the highest levels of state government. The lake holds more than bodies. It holds evidence. And after twenty-three years, the worst drought in Maine's history is dropping water levels, revealing things meant to stay hidden forever. Maya knows she should walk away. She knows powerful people want her silenced. She knows her obsession with truth is what got Lauren killed. But three teenage girls deserve justice, and her sister's final words-"Don't let them get away with it"-weren't rambling. They were a warning. As the water recedes and the past surfaces, Maya finds herself in a deadly race. Someone is eliminating everyone who knows the truth. And Maya has just become the next target. The drownings were staged. The investigation was manipulated. And the monster who destroyed those girls' lives is still out there-wealthy, powerful, convinced they're untouchable. But they've never dealt with Maya Chen. Someone with nothing left to lose. Someone who knows the only way to honor the dead is to drag their killers into the light. They said the girls drowned. They lied.