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.