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They appear without warning. Pale. Motionless. Watching through featureless faces. Sophia Landry calls them the plain people, and ever since her mother’s mysterious drowning, they’ve  been showing up in the dark corners of Sophie’s world. Her father can’t see them. Her teachers don’t believe her. Everyone thinks it’s just Sophie’s grief manifesting itself.

But one man is starting to understand.

Dr. Simon Reed was trained to find psychological patterns, not monsters. But something about the girl’s story — and the sordid history of Lake Saugus — keeps pulling him deeper. And the deeper he digs, the more he dreams of black, frigid waters, and of the whispering, ancient evil that sleeps under the silt of the lake’s floor.