Many thanks to NetGalley and Gallery/Scout Press for gifting me a digital ARC of the creepy new book by Jennifer McMahon, a definite go-to author for me. 4.5 stars.
In the late 1920s, living in New Hampshire, Ethel is desperate for a baby with her doctor husband, Will. Trying to cheer her up, Will books a vacation at a new hotel in Vermont built near a stream that supposedly has magical powers. However, it is well-known among locals that the stream will also take back in equal measures.
In 2019, Jackie (Jax) is a social worker who moved to Washington, far away from her family and especially her sister, Lexie. Lexie has bipolar disease and can be very irrational when off her meds. Lexie leaves a series of increasingly frantic phone messages to Jax which she ignores. Then she gets word that her sister has drowned. Jax heads back to Vermont to the family home where Lexie was living, full of guilt for not answering her sister's calls.
Beautifully written, both timelines draw you in to the mystery surrounding the people living among the pool that is rumored to have no bottom. It will pull you into the atmospheric creepiness surrounding this remote castle-like home and pool. Another winner by Jennifer McMahon!
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