Samantha Passmore’s shadow has followed her, twitching and coiling, for ten years.

​Ever since she survived an attack by an unspeakable beast hidden in a dark cove on Hoal beach. But that monster was impossible. It couldn’t have been real. It couldn’t have torn her apart and feasted on her insides. So the truth lay buried, pushed to the dark reaches of her mind.

Sam returns to the village a decade on for her grandfather’s funeral. But being back, being so close to the place she shouldn’t have survived, jars loose memories she’s desperate to keep lost at sea. As she's plagued by truths she can’t make sense of and doesn’t want to, the town mirrors her torment: animals are gored, locals turn strange and obsessive, and there’s something dripping in the water. Something floating in the eyes of the villagers.

Something following Sam.

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The only way to escape the nightmare unfolding around her is to face what really happened on that beach when she was sixteen, even if it threatens to drown her.