The Lake That Remembers

In the quiet farming town of Willow Creek, Nebraska, there is a lake the locals speak about only in whispers. They don't say it is haunted. They don't say it is cursed. They only say one thing: "The lake never returns bodies— But it never forgets what it saw." Thirteen-year-old Alan Whitaker, son of a struggling single mother, earns a few dollars by ferrying people across the old lake using his father's handmade boat. One humid evening, during a sudden storm, Alan's boat capsizes. He drowns. But instead of dying— he wakes up twenty years in the past, on the same boat, on the same lake. And from his boat, hidden behind the reeds— Alan witnesses a real murder. A man is brutally killed and his body is hidden in the lake. Alan sees the killer's face. Moments later, he wakes up in the present, alive—rescued, dazed, confused. Everyone thinks he imagined it. But Alan soon discovers the most shocking truth: The man he saw committing the murder twenty years ago— is now the Governor of Nebraska. Powerful. Untouchable. Respected. Armed with nothing except what he witnessed through time, Alan begins to quietly unravel a crime buried beneath water, silence, and fear. He cannot prove it. But the lake can. Because some waters don't just drown people— they drown time. And now, time has finally come back.