Return to Water

"Mrs. Calloway spoke my name wrong at the funeral, the syllables falling from her lips like stones dropped in still water."

She studied the ocean from the safe side of glass. She never asked why.

Marine biologist Linnea has spent six years cataloging deep-sea specimens — never touching salt water, never going near the tide. Her adoptive mother Margaret made sure of that.

But Margaret is dead. And in her coastal house, with its locked rooms and the smell of brine and rot, Linnea begins to chang...