Still Waters 2012 is a mystery thriller set in Florida that intertwines two parallel stories: Teena Shostekovich, an EPA researcher battling corporate attempts to privatize public waterways, and Jessie Weston, a fictional rancher fighting to protect her land from government interference. Teena’s work and her novel about Jessie blur reality and fiction, revealing complex environmental, legal, and personal conflicts. When Teena’s novel manuscript is stolen and a detective investigating the theft is murdered, she becomes a suspect in a case tied to international terrorism. The novel culminates in a tense confrontation over land and legacy, though its ambiguous ending leaves key outcomes unresolved. Winner of the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Grand Prize for Fiction, Still Waters offers a fast-paced plot rich with Floridian culture and ecology.
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