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Enter the Goodreads giveaway for Underlake by Erin L. McCoy.
Thirteen years after fleeing her hometown of Steels to chase a dream of becoming a marine biologist, Otta returns—haunted by failure and the death of a friend during a deep-sea dive. She’s convinced she’ll never dive again. Then May, a stranger, knocks on her door with a startling claim: her daughter has run away and is alive beneath a nearby lake.
The legend of the “underlake” turns out to be real. Decades ago, a valley town was submerged to build a dam—but its residents refused to leave. Now, they live beneath the water in a sealed network of tubes and buildings, calling themselves “refugees of a world obsessed with change.”
To find May’s daughter, Otta must descend into this hidden world. What she and May discover is a society shaped by isolation, nostalgia, and extremes of belief. As their journey deepens, so does their bond, forcing each woman to confront the fears and forces that have shaped their lives. Together, they must defy the limits of body, love, and belonging.
Underlake is a hypnotic, genre-defying novel that blends lyrical prose with sharp social insight. It explores the tension between memory and progress, the cost of erasure, and the possibilities of connection across time and space.