Ethan Hale is supposed to be dead.

So why is he standing at the foot of Kayla’s bed, dripping ocean water onto her rug?

At first, Kayla wants to believe her friend has come back. Then Ethan stays silent. He doesn’t blink. He doesn’t breathe. And when he leaves, he steps backward through her closed bedroom window.

No one believes what Kayla saw. But the thing wearing Ethan’s face keeps returning, watching her from the dark with calm, patient eyes.

Soon, other children begin walking out of their homes in the middle of the night, barefoot and silent, heading for the cliffs above Dead Man’s Drop. Strange messages appear on Kayla’s phone. A voice that isn’t Ethan’s whispers inside her mind, calling her to the water.

Whatever came from the deep doesn’t just want another victim. It needs Kayla as its Anchor, a living doorway it can use to cross over for good.

With help from her loyal best friend, Liam, and a teacher who knows more about the town’s past than he admits, Kayla follows a strange hum into the sea caves beneath the shore. But stopping the thing in the water may cost more than she’s ready to give.

In this chilling YA supernatural horror book, the scariest question isn’t what waits in the dark.

It’s who comes back out of it.