The Drowning Hour

<p>Some houses whisper. This one sings. And it remembers every note.<br><br>When private investigator Marnie Frost arrives at the Captain's Rest Inn on the storm-wracked coast of Maine she expects another haunted property another grieving family another case of folklore dressed as fear.<br><br>But the inn isn't just haunted-it's hungry.<br><br>The tide has vanished. Mirrors weep salt. Guests wake with songs they've never heard on their lips. And beneath it all is a name the sea won't stop repeating: Ezra Cutter-long-dead mariner tragic groom and keeper of a vow never fulfilled.<br><br>As Marnie unravels the spectral history of the Cutter family she's pulled deeper into a legacy of drowned brides forgotten rituals and a doorway that doesn't open with a key-but with a name.<br><br>To close the case she'll have to open the door.<br><br>To survive she'll have to remember what she promised not to.<br><br>Because in Cutter's Bay memory is the tide.<br><br>And it always comes back.</p>