The Drowning Season

The Drowning Season

by Inés Carraway · Ongoing · 50 chapters

⚠ peril ⚠ grief ⚠ mild language

Every autumn, for one week, the sea along the coast of Kelder's Bight turns unexplainable. Boats vanish without a distress call. The wreckage, when it's found, is never where it should be. Fourteen people have died in the Drowning Season over three decades — including Eli Marchetti's older brother, six years ago. Eli became a documentary cameraman chasing one story: what happened to Sam in his last hour. Nora Voss became a field meteorologist chasing the same kind of answer, after losing her own sister to a death just as unexplainable. Thrown together by a grant neither of them wanted to share, they fall for each other through storms, danger, and the kind of competence that looks like magic up close — until Eli's obsession with retracing his brother's exact route leads him to lie to Nora about the risk, and she walks away rather than watch someone she loves become one more name on the list. But the mystery isn't finished with either of them. And this year's Drowning Season is shaping up to be the worst one in the town's history.

Chapters

Chapter 1: What the Water Took Free Chapter 2: Cameras and Bureaucrats Free Chapter 3: Oda's Deck, Oda's Rules Free Chapter 4: The Man Who Finds Things Fast 🪙 10 Chapter 5: Fourteen Buoys 🪙 10 Chapter 6: The Lighthouse at Deep Water Point 🪙 10 Chapter 7: Night Watch 🪙 10 Chapter 8: Numbers That Disagree 🪙 10 Chapter 9: Reyes Keeps Score 🪙 10 Chapter 10: What Oda Doesn't Say 🪙 10 Chapter 11: The Last Calm Day 🪙 10 Chapter 12: The Rogue Current 🪙 10 Chapter 13: The Ice Cracks 🪙 10 Chapter 14: What the Radio Kept 🪙 10 Chapter 15: Callie 🪙 10 Chapter 16: Reading the Water Together 🪙 10 Chapter 17: The Locker 🪙 10 Chapter 18: The Long Route 🪙 10 Chapter 19: Holding the Line 🪙 10 Chapter 20: Restricted Water 🪙 10 Chapter 21: Weather Coming 🪙 10 Chapter 22: The Squall 🪙 10 Chapter 23: After the Storm 🪙 10 Chapter 24: A Hand on the Switch 🪙 10 Chapter 25: Cagey 🪙 10 Chapter 26: What the Water Gave Back 🪙 10 Chapter 27: Two Sets of Instruments 🪙 10 Chapter 28: The Chase Boat 🪙 10 Chapter 29: Repairs 🪙 10 Chapter 30: Restricted Water 🪙 10 Chapter 31: The Coordinates 🪙 10 Chapter 32: What He Left Out 🪙 10 Chapter 33: The Anniversary Run 🪙 10 Chapter 34: The Dock at Low Tide 🪙 10 Chapter 35: Working Wounded 🪙 10 Chapter 36: Cold Data 🪙 10 Chapter 37: The Almanac Storm 🪙 10 Chapter 38: What the Survey Said 🪙 10 Chapter 39: A Quiet Word with Marcus Holt 🪙 10 Chapter 40: The Missing Boat 🪙 10 Chapter 41: The Throw Line 🪙 10 Chapter 42: Ashore 🪙 10 Chapter 43: The Worst Night 🪙 10 Chapter 44: Into the Dark Water 🪙 10 Chapter 45: The Pulse 🪙 10 Chapter 46: Landfall 🪙 10 Chapter 47: Sam's Last Page 🪙 10 Chapter 48: What the Town Did With It 🪙 10 Chapter 49: What They Chose 🪙 10 Chapter 50: The Next Season 🪙 10

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