The Drowning

Every summer camp has a ghost story. For Alex Parson,that story came true – and twenty-one years laterthe ghost from that story is back for revenge…Every summer camp has a ghost story. While Alex is working as a swimming instructor at a rural boys’ camphe hears the tale of John Otiswho is rumored to snatch one boy from the camp every seventh summer. It’s a ridiculous storyclearly meant to rile up the campers.The next dayan eight-year-old boy named Joey Proctor is in Alex’s swimming group. Frustrated by Joey’s fear of the waterAlex leaves him on a raft in the laketells him to swim back on his ownand storms off. Alex returns after nightfall to find the raft empty. Joey is never seen again.Nowtwenty-one years laterAlex is a wealthy Manhattan-based real estate developer with a trophy wife and two young daughters. But someone is after Alex – it seems Joey Proctor is backand he wants revenge…