The Vanishing at Coldwater Lake
A chilling, twist-packed YA psychological thriller about a missing girl, a corrupt cop, a mistaken target, small-town secrets, an unlikely alliance, and the lie that started it allBy Maren Delacroix
Length6h 10m
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The lake looked innocent at dawn.
It was lying.
The morning after the Ice Harvest bonfire, Lily Choi was gone.
Everyone had a story.
She wandered toward the water. She hitched a ride out of town. You know how she talked about leaving.
My name is Maren, and I stopped believing the easy version the moment I knelt on the ice.
Because there, six inches under a sheet no thicker than my thumb, I found her bracelet.
Blue stones. Silver chain. The one her mother gave her before she died.
She never took it off. Never.
The clasp was broken, bent wrong, like someone had yanked it off her wrist.
And caught in the hinge was a single strand of hair.
Black. Coarse. Thick.
Nothing like Lily's.
Someone else was at the boathouse that night.
"Maren, don't touch it," Quinn told me over the phone. "If that's evidence-"
"It's already in my pocket," I said.
Now the sheriff is treating it as a missing-persons case, and Sheriff Cole is asking everyone who was at the bonfire one question: who saw Lily last?
But the more I dig, the more I realize the man with the badge isn't looking for the truth.
He's burying it.
A note that smelled of gasoline.
A diary page that wasn't torn out after all.
A locker that opens a door.
A recording that changes everything.
And a slow, creeping certainty that whoever took Lily may have meant to take someone else entirely.
In a town this small, asking the wrong question can get you drowned.
Before the ice melts and the water gives up what it's holding, Maren has to decide how far she'll go for a friend she should have walked over to that night, and a truth nobody else wants found.
The Vanishing at Coldwater Lake is a chilling, twist-packed YA psychological thriller about a missing girl, a corrupt cop, a mistaken target, small-town secrets, an unlikely alliance, and the lie that started it all.
Perfect for readers who love YA mysteries, small-town thrillers, missing-girl suspense, twisty whodunits, and a relentless amateur sleuth who won't stop digging. A standalone YA thriller.
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult
Length6 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Dedication
3Chapter 1 - The Lie the Ice Told
4Chapter 2 - The Second Tracks
5Chapter 3 - The Weight of a Mother’s Silence
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6Chapter 4 - The Third Body
7Chapter 5 - The Note That Smelled of Gasoline
8Chapter 6 - What Quinn Saw
9Chapter 7 - The Split
10Chapter 8 - The Alibi That Almost Held
11Chapter 9 - The Locker That Opened a Door
12Chapter 10 - The Phone That Went Silent
13Chapter 11 - The Mother’s Account
14Chapter 12 - The Witness Who Saw Too Much
15Chapter 13 - The Mob at the Bait Shop
16Chapter 14 - The Diary Page That Wasn’t Torn
17Chapter 15 - The Recording That Changed Everything
18Chapter 16 - The Sheriff’s Blind Eye
19Chapter 17 - The Fire on the Lake
20Chapter 18 - The Key to the Past
21Chapter 19 - The Drawer That Spoke
22Chapter 20 - The Mother Who Left
23Chapter 21 - The Reckoning of Quinn
24Chapter 22 - The Hole in the Ice
25Chapter 23 - The Alliance That Cost Nothing
26Chapter 24 - The Ransom of the Mother
27Chapter 25 - The Confession in the Dark
28Chapter 26 - The Arrest That Wasn’t Clean
29Chapter 27 - The Hole We Fill
30Chapter 28 - The Image That Stayed
31Chapter 29 - The Press That Never Came
32Chapter 30 - The Last Page in the Diary
33Chapter 31 - The Truth the Water Held
34Chapter 32 - The Charges Read
35Chapter 33 - The Spring That Came After
36Epilogue
37About the Author
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