Summit Lake Kindle Edition by Charlie Donlea

No suspects. No persons of interest. Just a young woman alive one day and gone the next. There are places that appear untouched by horror, and Summit Lake, nestled in North Carolina’s serene Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of them. But two weeks ago, Becca Eckersley, a promising first-year law student and daughter of a prominent attorney, was viciously murdered there. Now, the town is engulfed in sorrow, and the authorities are stumped.

Initially, investigative journalist Kelsey Castle views the assignment as trivial. Yet, the brutality of the crime and the attempts to hush it up suggest something far more ominous than a random assault by a stranger. As Kelsey delves deeper, despite the risks and warnings, she feels an inexplicable connection to the deceased. The more she uncovers about Becca’s relationships, her romantic entanglements, and her hidden life, the more convinced Kelsey becomes that retracing Becca’s final footsteps could lead her to confront her own shadowed past…