If you can hear the call of the water, it's already far too late.
They say Cape Disappointment is haunted. Thatâs why tourists used to flock there in droves. Theyâd visit the rocky shoreline under the old lighthouseâs watchful eye and fish shells from the water as they pretended to spot dark shapes in the surf.
Now the tourists are long gone, and when Meredith Strand and her young daughter return to Meredithâs childhood home after an acrimonious split from her wife, the cape seems more haunted by regret than any malevolent force.
But her mother, suffering from early stages of Alzheimerâs, is convinced the ghost stories are real. Not only is there something in the water, but itâs watching them.
Waiting for them. Reaching out to Meredithâs daughter the way it has to every woman in their line for generationsâand if Meredith isnât careful, all three women, bound by blood and heartbreak, will be lost one by one to the oceanâs mournful call.
Part modern gothic, part ghost story, They Drown Our Daughters explores the depths of motherhood, identity, and the lengths a woman will go to hold on to both.