Pipe Down

"Okay," Bea says out loud, like naming it will make it stop. It doesn't.

At forty-two, Bea Villanueva knows exactly who she is: a no-nonsense plumber, a problem-solver, a woman who fixes what's broken and moves on. Night sweats? Hormones. Tremors? Fatigue. The sudden, bone-deep craving for red meat? Just another symptom to manage.

Until the night everything breaks.

Called out to a remote estate at midnight, Bea expects a routine drainage job. What she gets instead is something impossible-her b...