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SYNOPSIS
With a jolt, Carl opens his eyes. He’s on the bank of a lake, soaked to the bone. Rob, his brother, is being zipped up in a body bag. And a girl, drenched and trembling, is talking to the police. Who is she? What happened in the water? And why can’t he remember any of it?

At first Carl thinks it’s his grief speaking. Remembering Rob. The sound of his voice, things he used to say.

But then Carl starts to see him. Rob’s face in the water before it washes down the drain. His ghost rising up from the puddles. His hands clawing out of the moldy, rain-rotted walls. Like a dripping tap, he won’t stop.

Rob may be dead. But he’s not gone. Because he wants to finish what he started, and he won’t go under alone.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rachel Ward first won a writers’ award at a regional arts festival, and her prize-winning short story turned into the opening chapter of NUMBERS, her breakout debut novel. Rachel lives in Bath, England, with her husband and their two children.