What the River Knows
(2026)(The third book in the Blackwater Mills Trilogy series)
A novel by Jeulia Hesse
Fifteen years of silence. Another body in the woods. The truth lies just beneath the surface.
Fifteen years ago, Harper Leigh escaped the Black River Killer. Her friend didn’t. Harper remembers the terror, and the certainty that someone was hunting them, but not his face, his voice, or a single detail that could have brought him to justice. So she became a deputy, built a life around protecting Blackwater Mills, and learned never to be helpless again.
For over a year, Blackwater Mills has lived under the shadow of his possible return. Old crimes pointed in one direction, then proved to be something else entirely. But when a body is found in the woods, killed in the exact way Harper has spent fifteen years trying to forget, there is no mistaking it.
FBI Special Agent Eli Turner knows this case has always been personal for Harper. Working beside her means confronting the attraction neither of them has been able to outrun, while the killer turns their investigation into a message meant for her alone.
The truth lies beneath the surface of Blackwater Mills, hidden among people Harper trusts and a past someone has worked very hard to protect. To uncover what the river knows, Harper must recover the memories she lost that night, before the killer can finish what he started.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Fifteen years ago, Harper Leigh escaped the Black River Killer. Her friend didn’t. Harper remembers the terror, and the certainty that someone was hunting them, but not his face, his voice, or a single detail that could have brought him to justice. So she became a deputy, built a life around protecting Blackwater Mills, and learned never to be helpless again.
For over a year, Blackwater Mills has lived under the shadow of his possible return. Old crimes pointed in one direction, then proved to be something else entirely. But when a body is found in the woods, killed in the exact way Harper has spent fifteen years trying to forget, there is no mistaking it.
FBI Special Agent Eli Turner knows this case has always been personal for Harper. Working beside her means confronting the attraction neither of them has been able to outrun, while the killer turns their investigation into a message meant for her alone.
The truth lies beneath the surface of Blackwater Mills, hidden among people Harper trusts and a past someone has worked very hard to protect. To uncover what the river knows, Harper must recover the memories she lost that night, before the killer can finish what he started.
Genre: Romantic Suspense