{"product_id":"the-gardner-j-e-moore-9798272774507","title":"The Gardner: \"Where the Sweet Water Sleeps\"","description":"Silas Devereaux is known throughout New Orleans as a man with gifted hands. A masterful restorer of antiques and a holistic healer, he mends broken objects and broken bodies with a quiet, calming grace. His French Quarter studio is a sanctuary for the city's wounded elite, a place where secrets are whispered and pains are soothed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Silas guards a darker inheritance. Raised by his Grandmère in the shadowy bayous, he was taught more than the healing properties of the soil; he learned of the land's ancient, insatiable hunger. Some wounds, she whispered, are too deep for medicine. Some blights require a more radical cure. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Corinne Baptiste, the elegant and traumatized scion of a powerful dynasty, confesses the horrifying truth about her predatory brother, she isn't just seeking solace. She is seeking a solution. She recognizes a kindred darkness in Silas-a willingness to do whatever is necessary to protect a legacy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawn into a dangerous folie à deux, Silas's art of healing twists into a sacred, monstrous duty: to become \"the Gardener\" and prune the rot from Corinne's world. But as he makes his grim offerings to the hungry bayou, a sharp and perceptive detective, Evangeline LeRoy, begins to connect the disappearances of the city's powerful men to the gentle man who listens to their wives' stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere the Sweet Water Sleeps is a lush, chilling Southern Gothic thriller that explores the fine line between healing and harming, justice and vengeance. It's a story about the stories we tell ourselves to survive and the terrible price of balancing the scales when the land itself is a willing accomplice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first novel in the haunting Bayou Gothic series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. E. Moore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798272774507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"J. E. Moore","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172721074431,"sku":"9798272774507","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gardner-j-e-moore-9798272774507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}