Water Street in Bloomington, MN

Some truths won't stay buried. Some legacies demand to be reclaimed.
When journalist
August Reed
returns to the coastal town of
Tanner's Cove
to care for his ailing father, he expects a brief visit, not a reckoning. But when his late mother's long-hidden environmental evidence surfaces-along with photographs of toxic dumping, old maps of underground tunnels, and a cancer cluster that was never acknowledged-August is pulled into a battle that spans generations.
As the town prepares to break ground on a controversial waterfront development, secrets seep to the surface. What begins as a quiet investigation erupts into a fight for truth, justice, and the soul of the community. With the help of
Maya Carson
, a café owner with her own family legacy, and her twelve-year-old daughter
Zoe
, whose mapmaking reveals what lies beneath, August must decide not only how to tell the story-but whether he's willing to stay and live it.
Equal parts mystery, memoir, and small-town epic,
Water Street
is a powerful exploration of environmental truth, inherited purpose, and the redemptive act of staying.