In St. Alma, the gators sun themselves in parking lots, and the new librarian can read more than what's printed on the page.
Savanna Reed moved to small-town Florida to disappear—but St. Alma has other plans. When a shifty patron returns a library book, something inexplicable passes through Savanna the moment her hand touches the cover: cold, wrong, and gone before she can name it. She blames the heat and stress, right up until the town's reigning queen of gossip mentions that a man died out past the east channels.
Then Savanna finds his name on the book's last checkout card.
Now she's the only one in town who knows the "accident" is anything but, though she can’t tell a soul how she knows. With off-the-record help from the deputy, her fellow librarian, and a gator-obsessed airboat tour guide, Savanna keeps dredging up things the residents would rather keep hidden.
But the water past the east channels isn’t done taking things—and St. Alma isn’t the kind of place that takes kindly to outsiders asking questions about why.
If you like small-town secrets, found family, and mysteries murkier than Florida swamp water, follow Savanna Reed into St. Alma where every returned book has a story, and some stories refuse to stay buried.
