The Devienne Weekes Bibliography
Devienne M. Weekes is a Montana author whose fiction explores the connections between landscape, memory, and identity. Set against the backdrop of Montana's mountains, small towns, and forgotten places, her novels blend atmospheric settings with deeply human stories of family, loyalty, love, and the search for truth.
From submerged towns and long-buried secrets to remote mining communities and the lives they once held, Weekes's work is shaped by a fascination with the ways people carry the past with them—and the choices they make when confronted .
by it. Her stories invite readers into places where history lingers, secrets endure, and ordinary lives are transformed by extraordinary circumstances.
Guided by a belief that place shapes people as much as people shape place, her fiction reflects a deep appreciation for Montana's landscapes, history, and communities
As Emily begins piecing together the truth, she discovers that the past is far more complicated than she imagined. Old loyalties run deep. Memories are unreliable. And some secrets survive because entire communities choose to protect them.
What begins as a search for answers becomes something far more personal, forcing Emily to confront an impossible choice between truth and loyalty, justice and compassion.
Set against the haunting backdrop of a town reclaimed from beneath the water, What the Lake Knows is an atmospheric literary mystery about memory, family, and the stories people tell themselves in order to live with the past.
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What the Lake Knows
Some towns disappear.
Others wait beneath the water.
When repairs to Pine Valley Reservoir force the water level to drop, seventeen-year-old Emily Warren watches the drowned streets and foundations of Evansville slowly emerge from the depths. Along with them come questions about a story her community has accepted for sixty years.
On graduation night in 1965, Clara Jennings vanished without a trace.Everyone in Hillsborough knows what happened. Clara left town. She never came back.At least, that's the story they've always told.
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The Divide
Some places refuse to let go of the people who pass through them.
When a storm strands Joey in the mountains of southwestern Montana, she finds herself in a world that shouldn't exist. The year is 1915. The remote mining town of Coolidge is alive with families, immigrants, hard work, and hard winters. Everyone she meets believes she belongs there.
Especially Jed Mercer.
As Joey struggles to understand what has happened to her, she is drawn into the lives of the people around her and into a community built on faith, sacrifice, and resilience. What begins as a desperate search for a way home slowly becomes something far more complicated.
Caught between two centuries and two very different futures, Joey must decide where she truly belongs—and what she is willing to leave behind.
Set against the rugged backdrop of Montana's mining country, The Divide is a sweeping historical time-slip novel about love, family, faith, and the choices that shape generations.