The Undertow

They didn't come here to die. They came here to disappear.

Elena Miller needs a clean slate. With her marriage fraying at the edges and her family teetering on the brink of collapse, a week at a secluded lake house seems like the perfect escape. Deep in the woods, miles from the nearest soul, Blackwood Lake promises silence.

But the silence is a lie.

The moment Elena steps onto the dock, she realizes the lake is not a reflection of the sky. It is a window into a submerged, grey-toned purgatory-a prison for the souls of the wicked who were never meant to be forgotten.

They are still here. They are watching from beneath the surface. And they are tired of waiting in the dark.

When the lake's stagnant, silt-heavy water begins to bleed into the pipes of the house, the boundary between the living and the damned begins to dissolve. Elena soon discovers that the house isn't a sanctuary; it's a lure. And the lake doesn't just want their secrets-it wants to trade places.

In the depths of Blackwood, the only thing scarier than what's in the water is the darkness already inside your own home.