A drowned road wakes once a century. This year, it rises early-and it's hungry.When Mara inherits her grandmother's old house on a fog-swept bend of the river, she also inherits its duty: keep the door shut, keep the bell ready, and never let the drowned road remember its name. The townsfolk call it a legend, but the river remembers-and something inside it has begun to sing through jars, drains, and steel.Rowan, the ferryman who walks between worlds, knows how dangerous that song can be. Bound by an ancient oath, he's paid in years for every time he draws the blade at his side. Together, he and Mara stand watch as winter closes in, the water grows clever, and the thing that calls itself Archer comes offering mercy for a price

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