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Deadwater Rising

(2026)
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After surviving a devastating tornado that claimed the life of her fiancé, Lydia Smith awakens with an extraordinary gift. She can cross into the Veil, a place between life and death where restless spirits linger, and terrifying Harrows wait to escort the damned into eternity.

When haunting visions place her inside the final moments of murdered women, Lydia is drawn nearly a thousand miles to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. There, she rents a beach house with a tragic history and befriends Hannah Moore, a young woman whose mother, Abigail, vanished without a trace more than thirty years ago.

As another woman disappears and investigators race to stop a killer they believe they’ve already identified, Lydia discovers Abigail’s spirit has been trying to tell her the truth all along. Each message pulls her deeper into a mystery buried beneath decades of lies, hidden in forgotten marshes.

But someone has been watching. Someone who has spent a lifetime hiding in plain sight.

And as the line between the living and the dead begins to disappear, Lydia realizes the next ghost searching for justice... might just be her own.



Genre: Horror

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