{"product_id":"groundwater-k-s-valentina-9798258253361","title":"Groundwater","description":"\u003cp\u003eI know what the covenant was built to do. I know it's been feeding the wrong thing for a hundred and seventy-seven years. I know the tithe, the binding, the tree - every tool Madeleine left me - is part of the problem. Every time I use the system, I feed the thing the system was supposed to contain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI need a different way in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man at the eastern fence held the line for thirty years past what he was promised. The rougarou tracks my heartbeat from the wire. His body comes to the house instead of the boundary now, and every night he fights it, and the fighting is breaking him apart. Hortense promised him release. I am not Hortense. I don't know yet what I am instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man in the walls knows what Madeleine actually did in 1847. I said his name and the house shuddered and a door opened that hadn't moved since the covenant was struck. Two rooms still dark. He's terrified of what happens if I open them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm going to open them anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGroundwater\u003c\/i\u003e is a gothic Southern why-choose monster romance - Book 3 of the Vauclain Monsters series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e K. S. Valentina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798258253361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.62d","brand":"K. S. Valentina","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852838940927,"sku":"9798258253361","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/groundwater-k-s-valentina-9798258253361","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}