In the shadow of a decaying estate, Ophelia Moreaux runs from the wreckage of her past. She finds refuge in glassblowing, coaxing fragile beauty from fire and fracture. But the pond behind her house calls to her, and so does the mansion beyond it.Unaware of the vengeful spirit lurking beneath the water’s surface, Ophelia swims nightly in the pond, even as its presence haunts her dreams. When she meets Malachai Graves, scarred, solitary, and dangerously magnetic, she is drawn to his darkness, as it mirrors her own.As Ophelia and Malachai confront the secrets that turned them into monsters in their own ways, the past claws its way back to the surface. The ghost in the water grows restless. It’s jealous, wrathful, and desperate to finish what it once started.Because some evils never die.They drown.And wait.