What the Water Gave Him

People say the Louisiana bayou remembers every body ever sunk beneath its waters.

Alastor DeRosiers knows this for a fact.

Deep in the blackwater beyond New Orleans lives something ancient and hungry-a strange beautiful creature with glowing eyes, sharp teeth, and something primordial moving beneath her skin. She has no language when he first finds her. No name until he gives her one.

Evelyn.

What begins in the swamp should have stayed there.

Instead, the water keeps answering him.