For thirty-one years, Lake Marrow kept its secret frozen beneath the ice—until the spring thaw finally let it go.

When a decades-old body surfaces from the melting surface of a small-town lake, detectives Declan Crowe and Ivy Sinclair are pulled into a case that everyone in Hollow Bend seems desperate to leave buried. What begins as a routine recovery quickly unravels into something far darker: a wealthy family that vanished overnight, a forbidden teenage romance, a second set of remains hidden at the opposite end of the lake, and a conspiracy of silence paid for and protected for thirty years.

As the ice keeps breaking apart day by day, so does the town's carefully maintained story. Old money, old fear, and old lies begin rising to the surface right alongside the truth—and Crowe and Sinclair have only as long as the thaw lasts to expose it before it sinks out of reach forever.