Shelly came to New Orleans looking for silence.
After years of being diminished by a man who knew how to wound without ever raising a hand, she tells herself she only needs rest—a chance to disappear into the heavy southern heat and the anonymity of a city already crowded with ghosts.
But the water has other plans.
At first, the voices come softly: whispers beneath dripping faucets, murmurs behind old pipes, cries hidden in the slow currents beneath the city streets. The dead are speaking to her. They always have. Shelly has simply spent most of her life pretending not to hear them.
Now the voices are growing louder.
As restless spirits begin pulling her toward secrets long buried beneath New Orleans’ flooded streets and fractured history, Shelly must confront the gift she fears, the grief she carries, and the truth she has spent years trying to outrun: some souls cannot rest until someone finally listens.