About the Book

For twenty years, Elena Marsh lived the life everyone envied. A bestselling author, a fixture on the speaking circuit, a woman who seemed to have it all. But behind the polished exterior was an exhaustion so deep it had become invisible — even to her.

When she walks away from everything to live in a one-room cabin on a remote lake, her friends think she’s having a breakdown. What she’s actually having is a beginning. In prose as clear and quiet as the waters that surround her, Marsh chronicles a year of radical simplicity — learning to chop wood, to sit with silence, to let go of the need to be seen.

Still Waters is not a self-help book. It’s a love letter to the life that waits on the other side of ambition — and a reminder that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is stop.