A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2021
In this "blisteringly suspenseful tale that will keep you up at night"
(Wendy Webb, author of Daughters of the Lake), a woman returns to the
old family home after her sister mysteriously drowns in its swimming
pool...but she's not the pool's only victim.
Be careful what you wish for.
When Jax receives nine missed calls from her older sister, Lexie, she
assumes that it's just another one of her sister's episodes. Manic and
increasingly out of touch with reality, Lexie has pushed Jax away for
over a year. But the next day, Lexie is dead: drowned in the pool at
their grandmother's estate. When Jax arrives at the house to go through
her sister's things, she learns that Lexie was researching the history
of their family and the property. And as she dives deeper into the
research herself, she discovers that the land holds a far darker past
than she could have ever imagined.
In 1929, thirty-seven-year-old newlywed Ethel Monroe hopes desperately
for a baby. In an effort to distract her, her husband whisks her away on
a trip to Vermont, where a natural spring is showcased by the newest and
most modern hotel in the Northeast. Once there, Ethel learns that the
water is rumored to grant wishes, never suspecting that the spring takes
in equal measure to what it gives.
A modern-day ghost story that illuminates how the past, though sometimes
forgotten, is never really far behind us, The Drowning Kind "is
satisfying on every level: Marvelously chilling, elegantly written, a
true page-turner" (Janelle Brown, New York Times bestselling author).
