The Lifeguard and the Drowned Boys
A Summer Ghost Story

About this book:

It’s just a summer job—until the deep end starts watching back. Seventeen-year-old Maya Lin takes her first post at Oakridge Municipal Pool, a crumbling 1968 relic under the relentless Oklahoma sun, expecting nothing worse than chlorine burns and cannonball kids. But Lane Four hides a chill no heatwave can explain, and something is moving twelve feet below the surface.

Three boys in vintage trunks glide through the deep water in perfect, breathless silence. They don’t surface. They don’t kick up bubbles. And when one tilts his pale face up through twelve feet of chlorinated water and puts a finger to his lips, Maya understands: the pool is haunted by swimmers who never made it out.

As August burns toward its end and the final whistle draws near, Maya must unravel the town’s best-kept secret before she becomes part of the deep end’s permanent roster. The Lifeguard and the Drowned Boys is a chilling, nostalgic summer ghost story where the water remembers everything—and it’s calling her name.