The Pond Girls: A Psychological Thriller (The New Town Thrillers (New town. New start. New nightmare.))

A young woman is found dead in the pond behind Denise’s new home.
The police call it suspicious. The town calls it tragic.
Denise Little calls it a warning.
She and her husband Justin moved to Vermont for a fresh start—a quiet town, a beautiful house by the water, and one last attempt at IVF after years of heartbreak. But only a week after they arrive, twenty-year-old Lesley Bowman is found drowned less than a mile from their front door.
Then the autopsy changes everything.
It wasn’t an accident.
As the investigation unfolds, Denise becomes obsessed with the pond—watching, waiting, searching for answers the police don’t seem to have. But the deeper she digs, the more Justin begins to question her sanity.
Is Denise unraveling under the pressure of infertility and isolation?
Or is she the only one who sees what’s really happening?
Because someone in this quiet town is hiding the truth.
And the pond isn’t done claiming its victims.