The last wave

Ryan Mercer is dead. Four years ago, his death was ruled an accident on a mountain trail, and Silver Creek slowly learned to live with the loss. His family moved forward as best they could, carrying the kind of grief that never completely disappears. Then Amy comes home. Something she remembers from the days surrounding Ryan’s death begins to bother her. At first, it seems insignificant — the kind of detail that memory might have distorted over time. But the more she thinks about it, the less certain she becomes that the story everyone accepted is the whole story. Retired homicide detective Nathan Cross has never been good at ignoring questions that don’t have answers. What begins as a quiet attempt to understand an old tragedy gradually draws him deeper into Ryan’s final days, forcing people in Silver Creek to reconsider what they thought they knew. Because sometimes the truth doesn’t disappear. It waits. The Last Wave is a slow-burn mystery thriller about grief, memory, trust, and the secrets that can survive for years in plain sight.