Winter Bones

The ice hides more than secrets... it holds the souls of the lost.
When Sarah returns to her hometown of Cedarbrook for her brother's funeral, she expects grief and sorrow-but not fear. Her brother's death, ruled a mysterious drowning in the frozen waters of Echo Lake, doesn't add up. As Sarah digs deeper, she discovers her brother wasn't the first to meet this fate. Several others have drowned or vanished under strange circumstances, their bodies pulled from the icy depths of the lake with no explanation.
Sheriff Turner, Sarah's high school crush vows to help her uncover the truth of what happened to her brother.
Rumors swirl around town, whispering of an evil that haunts the lake-a spirit said to take the souls of the living as vengeance. As winter deepens and the frozen lake calls to her, Sarah must uncover the truth behind these deaths before she becomes the next victim.
But in a town where everyone has secrets, the line between the living and the dead may be thinner than she ever imagined.

Winter Bones is a stand-alone novel in the Restless Dead Collection.