When Through Deep Waters By: Rachelle Dekker Tyndale House Publishers, 2018 When Through Deep Waters tells the story of a young woman named Alicen who goes through a terrible tragedy and loses everything she has. Her life is just a shell, and she comes to realize that life was lacking long before her tragedy. She can’t get away from the guilt. She begins what she thinks is stress-induced hallucinating, hearing voices, seeing things that others don’t see. When others see what is happening, they assume that she has gone crazy just like her grandmother before her. Alicen is so desperate to escape what she thinks she has done that she attempts to take her life and ends up in a mental hospital. Upon release she, along with her best friend, settle into a summer home from their childhood, hoping that good memories and friendship will take the place of the bad and help Alicen heal. Alicen struggles not only with her perception of her guilt, but with her rel