Vanishing at Willowmere Lake

Seventeen-year-old Mara Ellison has spent one year trying not to remember the night at Willowmere Lake—the night her best friend disappeared, the bonfire went cold, and everyone who was there told a different version of the truth.

When a new message appears from the missing girl’s old phone, Mara is pulled back into the secrets she promised to bury. The lake town wants the past to stay quiet, but old friendships, jealousies, and lies begin to surface one by one.

As Mara retraces the last hours before the disappearance, she realizes the truth is not just hidden in what happened that night. It is hidden in what her friends chose to forget.

Vanishing at Willowmere Lake is a young adult mystery about friendship, guilt, small-town secrets, and the night nobody can explain.