Personally, I'm convinced that Lex tried to drown her. Although, knowing his character, I'd be surprised if he bothered to do the dirty work himself. Is Nigel around still? He was always a favorite character of mine.
I wasn't surprised that Clark found Lois alive, I'll have to admit, although up until he found her on the branch, I expected she'd be hiding in the woods or on an island somewhere, willingly.
I never cease to be impressed with your plotting and writing.

Summer Dreaming, although I didn't read it fast enough to write any comments on the boards, was fantastic. And I'm so glad you're doing a sequel! When I was halfway through the 4th part of SD I started to get worried--how the heck is Wendy going to fix this in half a section? I should have thought of the obvious answer. More writing!
BTW, the link for the first part of "Betrayed" seems to go to the comments instead of the actual section, unless I was doing something wrong.