In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father's funeral takes place. When Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls...

The Hound Bridget ban has vanished and the Kennel has given up the search. But her daughter, the harper Méarana, has enlisted the scarred man, Donovan, to aid her in her search.

Students at Atwood School have always leapt across the Narrow, a slender stretch of river behind the school, renowned for its inescapable undercurrent. But for Eden, the Narrow isn’t only the site of a school tradition. It’s where she saw Delphine Fornier fall in and drown—and then miraculously show up alive again, albeit stricken with a bizarre disease making her allergic to anything but the purest water. Now, in Eden’s senior year, she’s...