Where the Low Tide Rots

New Orleans, Louisiana. October 2005.

The Jetson Youth Correctional Center has a massive overcrowding problem - or rather, it had one, before Hurricane Katrina tore across the coast. In the aftermath, the state quietly initiated the Arcane Delinquent Rehabilitation Initiative (ADRI), a high-stakes, off-the-books juvenile program where delinquents could earn their freedom through the brutal slaughter of supernatural threats. For every monster neutralized across the sweltering Louisiana bayou, the state chipped away at the kids' sentences.

Take these three teenage convicts, for example:

Thea Korshidi, a seventeen-year-old part-time demon slayer desperate to leave her suffocating home life.

Remy Salazar, an eighteen-year-old half-demon hybrid who finds human bureaucracy more exhausting than the dead.

Prue Beaumont, a kind seventeen-year-old witch whose quiet demeanor masks a dangerous, past.

Under the strict supervision of ADRI, they attempt to navigate a lawless, flooded world. But after a routine assignment in the higher ground goes spectacularly wrong, their handler dumps the trio at Hemlock Ridge - a fancy, isolated campsite deep in the Basin. Their mandatory assignment? Turn a pack of foul-mouthed preteen delinquents into ruthless killers.

What should be a straightforward way to keep a low profile quickly spirals into a gothic nightmare. The camp manager is a total asshole, the cabins reek of old mold, and the campers are unpredictable to the point of exhaustion.

But when the trio stumbles across a shallow graveyard hidden deep in the woods, they are forced to navigate a labyrinth of rusted cabins and half-whispered threats to unearth the truth. Make no mistake - they aren't looking to play heroes or clean up messes. But if exposing Hemlock Ridge's dark secrets is the only way to earn a clean slate, then so be it.