The Drowning Kind

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Jax Sorrow flies home to her grandmother's Vermont estate after her sister Lexie's frantic calls become something she can no longer ignore. She arrives to find Lexie dead, drowned in the spring pool on the property — a pool that local legend says can grant wishes. What Jax discovers, piecing together Lexie's journals from a summer decades earlier, is that the pool has been taking people for a very long time. Jennifer McMahon's horror novel alternates between timelines to build a portrait of grief, obsession, and the specific danger of wanting something badly enough to deal with a spring that listens.