Body of Water - by Adam Godfrey (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

For fans of Stephen King's The Mist and the HBO hit show The Last of Us comes a wildly inventive, sinister thriller following an estranged father and daughter who find themselves trapped in a diner by a living body of water.

Don't let the water drag you down...

It's been six years since Glen Masters lost his wife in a tragic accident. In hopes of reconnecting with his grieving teenage daughter, Lauren, he decides to take her on a road trip through the Appalachian mountains, where he has fond memories of their past as a family. But what was supposed to be a quick diner pit stop suddenly transforms into a nightmare when armed men stumble in, ranting about a mysterious and deadly "living water" that attacked several people up the road. The story the men spin seems to be the rantings of drunken lunatics, but soon Glen, his daughter, and the other diners find themselves hostages to both the gunmen and the inexplicably terrifying entity.

Because there's truly something wrong with the water, and it has no mercy.

Panic grows as the diners play witness to a nature-defying being that seeks only to swallow everything in its path. With help nowhere in sight, the group of strangers must work together to devise an escape, and ultimately, Glen will have to face his worst fears to reconcile with the past or risk losing everything.

A chilling story from a brand-new voice in fiction, Body of Water explores the complicated nature of grief, terror, and the ghosts we must confront to survive.

Review Quotes

""In Body of Water, Adam Godfrey creates a terrifying, claustrophobic and unique horror ... and then throws you in at the deep end. Painfully tense, occasionally gruesome, it also plucks the heart strings. Brilliant!" -- Tim Lebbon, author of Secret Lives of The Dead

"A terrifying look at what happens when a giver of life becomes a harbinger of death. Every drop is a threat, every ripple a death knell. You'll never look at water the same again." -- Daniel G. Miller, USA Today bestselling author of The Orphanage by the Lake

"Adam Godfrey's Body of Water grips like a vice. Mystery piles on mystery. Horrors upon horrors. When you think the story is going one way, it veers another, keeping you unsettled and unable to put the story down. Written with an aching level of sympathy and pathos, while tackling what it means to survive trauma and grief, this is far more than a simple tale of watery monsters in the night. It is tour-de-force about what it means to be human in the face of tragedy." -- James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestseller of Arkangel

"In Body of Water, Adam Godfrey traps you inside a compulsive, claustrophobic tale that tackles grief and the impossible choices we can be forced to make for family. It's also the best reason to stay out of the water since Jaws." -- Tony Wirt, bestselling author of Pike Island and Just Stay Away

"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...the water gets into you. Adam Godfrey goes for the guts with Body of Water--then the heart--and floods them all, every last chamber." -- Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes