Mitch Wilde thought he understood what was in the water. He was wrong about how much.

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Whatever came out of the lakes is still here, and it has changed since the last time. It is stronger now. It is smarter. And it has found the one thing Mitch cannot afford to lose.

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His wife Mabey did not ask for any of this. She gets it anyway.

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Mitch works the problem with Jack, who has stayed through worse than he should have, and Jasper, who has been chasing this for longer than anyone knew. What the three of them turn up rewrites everything they believed about what is happening in the Pacific Northwest.

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Knowing the truth is not the same as surviving it. Saving Rogue River is going to cost them, and they do not all get to decide what.

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Not everyone walks out of this one.

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