CHRONICLE OF FROZEN RIVER: Secrets And Justice Buried In Ice

In the winter of 1908, Clara Whitmore receives a letter that shatters everything she knows. Her dying father confesses a truth he has buried for twenty-seven years: he is not her real father. Before she can reach his remote town of Frost Hollow, he is dead—leaving behind only a locked box, a cryptic warning, and a frozen river that refuses to give up its ghosts.

Clara returns to the town of her childhood expecting solitude. Instead, she finds a community haunted by a generations-old sickness, a glowing stone hidden beneath the ice, and a mystery that binds her family to the river's dark history. As the winter deepens and the freeze intensifies, Clara uncovers letters and diaries that speak of a woman named Eleanor—her true mother—who vanished while trying to destroy the very thing now calling to Clara from the depths.

But the stone is not a curse. It is alive. And it is dying.

With the help of a quiet diver, a determined schoolteacher, and a town that has forgotten how to hope, Clara must race against the freezing river to unlock the truth. What she finds beneath the ice will change her forever—and offer Frost Hollow its only chance at survival.

The River That Frosted is a haunting, atmospheric debut about family secrets, the weight of isolation, and the miraculous power of community to heal what has been frozen for generations.