In WHAT THE RIVER BURIES, the aftermath of her father's death makes seventeen-year-old Natalie feel like a stranger even to herself. Though she withdraws from friends and family, loses her job, and struggles with schoolwork, she finds peace in a riverside forest known as the Acres, comfort in the act of drawing sketches. But this solace is shattered when she comes face-to-face with a nightmarish murder deep within the woods. In her reckless pursuit of the killer, Nat wades through the tangled web of clues in her North Carolina hometown, and by the time the invincibility of her foe becomes clear, it's too late to back down. With the help of her best friend Marisa, Natalie must unmask him, or become another missing person.