
Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan
Inspired by folk horror, Water Ghosts is a novel set in 1928 in a small Chinese farming town in California. One day, three women appear from the mist. One is the long-lost wife of a well-known town member. The other two are complete unknowns—outsiders. But when mysterious strangers arrive in a small town, they don’t remain strangers for long. Soon, everyone in Locke, California, becomes entangled in the lives of these newly arrived women. Only then are their true powers revealed.