Skimming Stones - Paperback

As storm-fueled waters gradually stilled, a notorious Midwestern lake gives up the dead long hidden within its depths. Iona and Bree, two estranged thirty-something sisters, travel back home in hopes their missing mother had finally been located after years of uncertainty. But as they await identification of the skeletal remains, uncomfortable truths and barely spoken rumors soon taint the family reunion.

Craig Jones, the sister's onetime neighbor and grade school friend, returns to the childhood home where he lost his own mother decades earlier. As he begins to uncover obscure symbology and dormant clues that could tie the two disappearances together, his boyhood crush is soon rekindled as the trio revisit the ominous lake's troubled beginning and long-whispered lore.

Blending Scottish and Native American folklore, the haunts the three friends once ran from slowly encircles them in an ever tightening loop. The fabled history of the land and their own families' dark past drowning each in a suffocating certainty that their destinies are endlessly intertwined.