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Three hours and three minutes passed before anyone called 911.

Currents Beneath the Surface follows one journey through the aftermath of a son’s death at a U.S. Coast Guard base — from the phone call before dawn into everything that came after. The reader comes to know Ben — his big presence, and the unraveling no one stopped — and to feel the void left behind. It moves between that life remembered and the long search that grief set in motion. A mother turned investigator, she could not stop asking why: tracing the timestamps, medical records, and documents that didn’t add up. Part grief memoir, part investigation, it holds both at once — the love and the evidence, the mourning and the answers the institutions won’t give. It is the story of what it costs a family when the help never comes and the harm goes unanswered — and of one person who would not look away.

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S.E. Lee

S.E. Lee, an entrepreneur and finance professional, is now turning to law, where she’ll advocate for people the system overlooks. A mother of three and grandmother of two, many of her evenings have been devoted to youth sports. She lives in an undiscovered corner of the United States with four real seasons and spends as much of it as she can outside, running, biking, and chasing live music. A committed volunteer and restless reader, she has lately sought solace in writing. Currents Beneath the Surface is her first book.