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Some debts are paid in blood. Some are paid in water. Marina Castellano should have drowned. When a freak storm capsizes her sailboat and drags her beneath the waves, she sees them in those final, suffocating moments-a procession of drowned souls walking along the ocean floor, their dead eyes locked on her. At the end of the line stands a young woman in a tattered wedding dress, her face twisted in grief and rage, reaching toward Marina with skeletal fingers. Marina survives. But the bride follows her back. She appears in reflections. In crowds. In the bathtub filled with seawater at midnight. The haunting grows stronger, more desperate, pulling Marina toward the water with an insistence she can't ignore. Every night, the visions intensify. Every day, Marina slips further from the world of the living. Desperate for answers, Marina begins investigating the drownings that have plagued the coast for decades-seventeen victims, all lost in the same cursed stretch of water called the Devil's Throat. All their bodies were eventually found. All except one: Isabella Thorn, a bride who vanished on her wedding night twenty-three years ago. The same bride is now haunting Marina. As Marina digs deeper, she uncovers a conspiracy that spans generations-a powerful shipping family built on murder, corruption, and toxic secrets buried in the ocean's depths. Isabella didn't fall overboard. She was thrown. And the same forces that silenced her are now hunting Marina. But the curse demands more than truth. It demands a sacrifice. A life for a life. Blood for blood. The drowned souls won't rest until justice is served. And they're running out of patience. Marina has a choice: expose the sins of the past and break the curse, or become the eighteenth victim claimed by the Devil's Throat. But the deeper she goes, the more she realizes some truths are buried in water for a reason. And some ghosts don't want justice. They want revenge. The tide is rising. The dead are waiting. And Marina is running out of time. Author's Note: DEAD IN THE WATER is a dark supernatural thriller about generational guilt, the cost of silence, and the ghosts that refuse to stay buried. Perfect for readers who crave atmospheric horror blended with crime thriller intensity-think The Lovely Bones meets The Silent Patient, with a maritime gothic twist. Contains violence, disturbing imagery, and themes of murder and environmental crime. Full resolution guaranteed: justice will be served, all questions answered, but the ocean never forgets. For fans of morally complex characters, twisty investigations, and endings that haunt you long after the final page.

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