Mysterious Gothic of the American North. The keys to solving a hundred-year-old murder are hidden in the dreams of one woman... Hardly experiencing the collapse of her marriage, Kate Granger settled in her parents' house on the shores of the huge Lake Superior. And there, the legendary waters of the “inland sea” of North America reveal a terrible secret to her - they throw a murdered woman ashore. An amazingly well-preserved body in an antique nightgown, in the folds of which... a dead child was entangled. Who is she? The police have no answer to this question. But Kate seems to know this woman - she sees in strange dreams where she cannot distinguish herself from her. These dreams, like a seething stream, take her a hundred years ago, circling her in a whirlpool of ancient legends and family traditions. In them, Kate is an accomplice to an old love story, full of tragedies and still unresolved mysteries. But now the lake is ready to provide answers. And Kate is eager to get them. Even though she can unite with the drowned woman only in dreams, only together women are able to reveal the terrible secrets of the past... “An alchemical fusion of love, intrigue, stories of ancestors and the supernatural.” – Bookreporter “The well-written characters and suspenseful plot make this novel a hit.” – Publishers Weekly “The novel has everything it takes to be a spellbinding story: it has unexpected family secrets, ghosts, tragic love stories, intertwined destinies.” – Refinery29 “A gothic story through and through.” – Star Tribune