Elizabeth Blair has her childhood pegged; a kid different from the rest, isolated, insecure. But the drowning of a fourth-grade classmate infects her adulthood. Back in 1959, the big people of Echo Lake, Massachusetts professed that death doesn’t trouble kids. If it does, they get over it quick. So what in God’s name is Elizabeth Blair doing thirty years later, wandering a cemetery, looking for her fourth-grade classmate’s grave? And what’s up with those seven sketches she draws? Why did the best swimmer around drown? Had he drunk that purple stuff? Why does Elizabeth’s presence in Echo Lake agitate Rick Morton and Rusty Kane so much? Echo Lake spawns to many secrets—secrets that folks—including Elizabeth Blair—might just as soon abandon to the murky abyss that time leaves behind.

Elizabeth Blair has her childhood pegged; a kid different from the rest, isolated, insecure. But the drowning of a fourth-grade classmate infects her adulthood. Back in 1959, the big people of Echo Lake, Massachusetts professed that death doesn’t trouble kids. If it does, they get over it quick. So what in God’s name is Elizabeth Blair doing thirty years later, wandering a cemetery, looking for her fourth-grade classmate’s grave? And what’s up with those seven sketches she draws? Why did the best swimmer around drown? Had he drunk that purple stuff? Why does Elizabeth’s presence in Echo Lake agitate Rick Morton and Rusty Kane so much? Echo Lake spawns to many secrets—secrets that folks—including Elizabeth Blair—might just as soon abandon to the murky abyss that time leaves behind.