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Dive into the world of the Lantern Beast with On Fortune Lake, and discover the day two destinies unknowingly became one.
Jules Everton returns to Bracken Ridge, just looking for a break from real life. But during the annual Fortune Festival, she watches an inexplicable pageant of lights across the water that stirs half-forgotten memories. When she locks eyes with Danny Pencroft, she realizes she's not alone in sensing something beneath the surface. Jules can't shake the feeling that Fortune Lake is watching her—and whatever dwells in its depths remembers her.
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COMING SOON
Some secrets lie beneath the surface. Some rise to find you.
When increasingly urgent dreams compel photographer Jules Everton to visit her aunt's lakeside home, she expects a quiet winter in the sleepy town of Bracken Ridge. Instead, she discovers mysteries that defy explanation — shadows that move independently, light that bends in unnatural ways, and an entity of pure luminescence lurking in the depths of Fortune Lake.
Corporate lawyer Danny Pencroft is haunted by his childhood encounter with the local legend. Even though he’s spent twenty years publicly pretending not to notice the lights on the lake, he is incapable of escaping the hold they have over him.
As Mountain Crown Resorts threatens to develop the shoreline and strange disappearances plague the town, Jules and Danny uncover a century-old workshop hidden within the rocks, where an eccentric inventor's obsession reveals the lake's most dangerous secret. Now they must decode the desperate pleas of the Lantern Beast before an otherworldly catastrophe is unleashed—if they can navigate the growing connection between them that feels just as impossible as the obstacles they face.
In the depths of Fortune Lake, an ancient guardian cries for help. Will they decipher its warnings before it’s too late?