Book Cover: Beneath Still, Dark Water

Western Massachusetts, 1938. As the state prepares to flood the region to create Quabbin Reservoir, the once-thriving community is now a ghost town. Seventeen-year-old Harrison Bricker works a dead-end job and faces an uncertain future. But a chance encounter with the alluring Sadie Rose Parish thrusts ‘Brick’ into a hidden world of privilege, power—and murder.

After stealing her affections from wealthy suitor, Loomis Sims, Brick stumbles upon a secret that places the young lovers in a killer’s crosshairs. In a condemned land where the powerful rule, Brick must take down its most influential family or vanish forever beneath the gathering waters.

Author Stephen Paul Sayers

About the Author

Stephen Paul Sayers is a Plymouth resident and top-10 Amazon bestselling author of four Cape Cod-based thrillers: A Taker of Morrows, The Soul Dweller, The Immortal Force, and The Carousel Man (set on Martha’s Vineyard and the Flying Horses Carousel). When he’s not writing, you can find him at a beach or desperately trying to get to one.