the lantern beast

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, 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?