Vauclain Monsters · Book 3
Groundwater
The bayou keeps its secrets close. Della must look beneath the surface of the inheritance she is still learning to understand.
Official book guide
What is Groundwater about?
The bayou keeps its secrets close. Della must look beneath the surface of the inheritance she is still learning to understand.
Read the six main novels in order, beginning with Boundwater. Last Frost is an optional prequel.
People and creatures
Della Vauclain is a practical human heir arriving from Ohio. Her four nonhuman partners are Sable, the house spirit tied to the covenant tree; Feu, a will-o’-wisp; Corvin, a rougarou guarding the eastern fence; and Leste, the gilled creature of the channel below the Hollow.
World and setting
A Louisiana bayou property in fictional Vauclain Parish: a house, covenant tree, boundary fence, and waterway governed by older supernatural bargains.
What’s at stake
Della’s growing connection to the land makes understanding the binding urgent: responsibility for the household cannot remain hers alone.
Keep reading