In the haunted village of Darnham, where fog and superstition press as heavily as the river threatening to swallow it whole, disgraced physician Nathaniel Cutler seeks peace and anonymity. Instead, he discovers a town obsessed with ghosts, a decaying rectory ruled by secrets, and Eliot, a young artist whose paintings bleed with visions of desire and disaster. As Nathaniel is drawn into Eliot’s world, the river’s pull, and their connection, grows dangerously strong.
Together, they find love in Darnham is as perilous as the floodwaters encroaching each night. Something in the house—or beneath it—wants to claim them both, and each whispered confession pushes longing toward ruin. In The Colour of Drowning, passion and peril entwine in the shadows; this is a gothic boys’ love story where losing yourself may be the only way to be found.