THE TRUTH RISES. THE WATERS RECEDE. JUDGMENT COMES.
Nature doesn't keep secrets. It just waits for the tide to turn.
For thirty years, the town of Ashford was a ghost story. Sacrificed to the rising waters of the Stillwater Reservoir, it was supposed to be buried forever. But the worst drought in a century has arrived, and the water is pulling back like a scarred lip, revealing the skeletal remains of a town-and a crime-that was never meant to see the light of day.
A THIRTY-YEAR-OLD MURDER Forensic hydrologist Dr. Aris Thorne is prepared for a routine infrastructure crisis. Instead, she finds herself staring into the hollow eyes of her own past. A body has been found tied to the steeple of a submerged church in a crucifixion pose. The victim is her father-a man who supposedly died in a hit-and-run miles away decades ago.
A GLOBAL CONSPIRACY As Aris digs into the silt and secrets of the reservoir, she uncovers "The Consortium," a shadowy network weaponizing infrastructure for profit across the globe. From the crumbling foundations in North Carolina to the luxury high-rises of Zurich, Aris is the only thing standing between a coordinated sequence of catastrophic failures and the lives of three hundred thousand people.
A TICKING CLOCK The reservoir is still receding. The structural integrity of the dam is failing. And the conspiracy that murdered her father is still operating from the shadows-ready to ensure that this time, Aris Thorne stays underwater for good.
In the world of The Drowning Season, the truth doesn't just rise. It floods.