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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.
At Bracken Ridge’s annual Fortune Festival, an inexplicable pageant of light stirs up memories Jules Everton thought she had forgotten. And when she locks eyes with Danny Pencroft, it’s clear she’s not alone in sensing something beneath the surface.
Jules can’t shake the feeling that something is watching her—and whatever dwells in the depths of Lake Fortune 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 take refuge in 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, strange anomalies in time, and an entity lurking in the depths of Fortune Lake.
Corporate lawyer Danny Pencroft has spent the last twenty years pretending not to notice the lights on the lake, but in truth they still captivate him as much as they did when he was a child.
When Danny’s work leads him to investigate discrepancies at an abandoned mine, he and Jules uncover a century-old workshop hidden within the rocks, where an eccentric inventor’s obsession reveals Fortune Lake’s most dangerous secret.
Beneath the water, an ancient guardian cries desperately for help. Can they decipher its warnings before it’s too late?
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