Returning home to Heron Bay, Washington, at her aunt's request, Astrid, plagued by guilt, arrives to find her unconscious, and as she lingers in a coma, Astrid uncovers alarming evidence that her sister's drowning 17 years ago was not an accident-and that someone in town knows the truth.

Three generations of women, all with the same name, rid themselves of their unwanted husbands one by one and each in the same way: they drown them. The local coroner agrees to declare each of the deaths accidental in return for sexual favors. But when things don't go exactly as planned, he devises a final game that could result in the undoing of them all.

"Sixteen-year-old Henrietta used to be happy. But that was before her family hit the national news. Before she - and the whole world - knew she was related to one of New York's most prolific serial killers. Senior Investigator Shana Merchant readily agrees when her brother asks her to take in his troubled, rebellious daughter for the fall semester. Doug's convinced that spending a few months in Alexandria Bay with Shana will straighten Hen out. But...

Shortly after his 9th birthday, Camille tells his mother Ariane that he is really Paul, and that he would like to return to his "real" mother, Isabella, who lives on the other side of town. Alarmed at first, but willing to humor him, she takes him to Isabella's and is startled to find out he knows her apartment intimately. It turns out that Isabella's son drowned two years earlier. Is Camille the reincarnation of Isabella's dead son?

"Isabelle Berendon dove into blue water to save her son. She was too late. Again and again in her dreams she dives in, hoping this time it will be different. He will breathe and live. But again and again he dies. In the empty days following his death, abandoned by her husband, drowning in her grief, she falls in love with the one person who keeps reaching out to save her -- her sister-in-law."--Page 4 of cover.

"Pocos días antes de morir, Nel Abbott estuvo llamando a su hermana, pero Jules no cogió el teléfono, ignoró sus súplicas de ayuda. Ahora Nel está muerta. Dicen que saltó al río. Y Jules se ve arrastrada al pequeño pueblo de los veranos de su infancia, un lugar del que creía haber escapado, para cuidar de la adolescente que su hermana deja atrás. Pero Jules tiene miedo. Mucho miedo. Miedo al agua, miedo de sus recuerdos enterrados...

"The first time Jemma and Matt were invited to Polskirrin -- the palatial ocean-view home belonging to Matt's old friend Lucas Jarrett -- it was for an intimate wedding that ended in tragedy. Jemma will never forget the sight of the girl's pale, doll-like body bobbing listlessly toward the rocky shore. Now, exactly one year later, Jemma and her husband have reluctantly returned at Lucas's request to honor an anniversary they would do anything to forget....