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Red Water

A Cole Mercer Thriller

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Red Water

By: Chaddrick Gaines
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A missing girl. A silent town. Something in the air that makes people stop asking questions.

Cole Mercer doesn’t take jobs for money. He takes them because someone has to. When a bar owner’s daughter disappears without a trace—no calls, no sightings, no noise—Mercer follows the only lead he has: east.

What he finds in Gayle, North Carolina, isn’t a town hiding secrets.

It’s a town that’s forgotten how to care.

The air smells wrong. People repeat themselves. Conversations reset mid-sentence. No one questions the work. No one questions the disappearances.

And no one remembers the ones who don’t come back.

As Mercer digs deeper, he uncovers a system designed not just to exploit—but to erase. Workers are brought in, broken down, and discarded. The town doesn’t resist. It doesn’t even notice.

But Mercer does.

And when they realize he won’t forget, they make a mistake.

They try to stop him.

They should’ve left him alone.

RED WATER is a slow-burn, high-tension thriller with relentless atmosphere and controlled, brutal action. Perfect for fans of Jack Reacher and dark rural suspense, this is a story where nothing is clean, nothing is explained—and not everything gets fixed.

But some things do get stopped.

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