j.a. coppinger

You can't escape your past, no matter how fast you run. Boomer thought he'd done it. Thought he'd left behind misery, abuse, and the terrible secrets of his childhood, but he was wrong. When Jiffy, his oldest friend, walks back into his life after two decades, the horror of their past comes with him. Returning to a hell they'd barely escaped is the last thing either wants, but the weight of thirty dead girls will drive the friends into realms of memory and pain they'd prayed to never visit again. Mystery, murder, and magic dwell beneath the waters of the sleepy lake-shore town they grew up in and only Boomer and Jiff know where it all began. They know it started with two lonely, broken, nine-year-old boys, and know they have to stop what they put in motion before even more children die. You can't escape the past but maybe, just maybe, you can face it with a friend.