The Drowning Hour - Paperback

by Glenda Norwood Petz (Author)

Some houses whisper. This one sings. And it remembers every note.

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.

But the inn isn't just haunted-it's hungry.

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.

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.

To close the case, she'll have to open the door.

To survive, she'll have to remember what she promised not to.

Because in Cutter's Bay, memory is the tide.

And it always comes back.