Some memories don't drown. They wait.When Erin Mallory returns to Greywater Cove, she isn't just revisiting the home she fled. She's stepping back into a story the sea never stopped telling. The coastal town has tried to paint over its past, but the cracks always return. Spirals surface in sand and salt. Children hum songs that no one remembers teaching them. And the sea, silent for years, has begun to whisper again.Erin's bloodline carries a debt, and the sea is calling it in. Driven by dreams, tormented by the voice of her lost sister, and pursued by a legacy she never chose to inherit, Erin must unravel the truth behind the Drowned Ones-those taken by the tide and never truly returned-because the sea doesn't crave bodies. It craves memory. And in Greywater Cove, forgetting comes at a cost. The Drowned Ones is a slow-burn psychological horror novel laced with lyrical dread, mythic undertow, and quiet ruin. For readers who love the atmospheric haunt of Stephen King's Duma Key and the gothic resonance of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic.