A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from -- a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from, a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from, a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

When a single mom and a teen girl are found murdered at the bottom of a river in a small town weeks apart, an ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated local history involving human instincts and the damage they can inflict.

"Zaton Utoplenyt͡sʹ bili͡a tykhoho anhliĭsʹkoho mistechka. Nad nym - strimka skeli͡a, z i͡akoï proti͡ahom stolitʹ strybaly chy prosto padaly v temnu vodu z͡hinky. Pysʹmennyt͡si͡a Nel Ebbot, zacharovana motoroshnymy perekazamy ta lehendamy, pochynai͡e pysaty roman pro t͡se mist͡se... A potim ïï tilo znakhodi͡atʹ zatoni. Vedetʹsi͡a rozsliduvanni͡a, i nevdovzi stai͡e zrozumilo, shcho meshkant͡si mistechka shchosʹ prykhovui͡utʹ. Ïkhni͡u svidomistʹ vikamy otrui͡ui͡e zlo, i͡ake khovai͡etʹsi͡a v obti͡az͡henykh chornymy tai͡emnyt͡si͡amy vodakh zatony. Koz͡hen iz t͡sykh li͡udeĭ mai͡e svoi͡u zlovisnu tai͡emnyt͡si͡u. Chy vstyhne detektyv Shon Taunsend rozhadaty ïï do toho, i͡ak voda zatonu pryĭme u svoï hlybyny novu z͡hertvu?" --