Cailyn, a young woman whose bedroom is a shrine to the cosmos, finds her starlit dreams hijacked by an impossible reality when an alien starship summons her to the majestic rings of Saturn. There, she discovers a breathtaking city inhabited by ethereal Saturnians, beings of pure starlight, who are locked in a desperate struggle against an encroaching, sentient darkness known as the Void. Identified as a prophesied “child of two worlds,” uniquely capable of bridging light and shadow, Cailyn becomes their last hope.

A year after a devastating hurricane broke the dam and submerged the town of Wynne’s Falls, Renee returns to the shores of the now-named Lake Lament. Haunted by the past and driven by her late grandmother’s mysterious dying wish, she prepares to dive into the eerie, silent depths. Her quest: to find a specific family heirloom, a bronze rose, lost in the underwater ruins of her grandmother’s home, a relic tied to whispered family secrets and a promise Renee feels compelled to honor. Her old friend Thomas is there to assist, but an undercurrent of unease flows between them, mirroring the unsettling stillness of the lake itself.

In this sequel to The Guardian of the Lake, beneath the dark, still waters of Lake Lament lies the drowned town of Wynns Falls—a watery grave for thousands and, according to legend, a resting place for a fortune in lost valuables. When a crew of desperate criminals decides to plunder its depths, they discover the legends are true. Something ancient and monstrous guards the silence, and it does not suffer trespassers gladly.

For paranormal investigator Cailyn, the line between the living and the dead has always been thin. A childhood tragedy that took her brother, Michael, and his ghostly visitation moments later, set her on a lifelong quest to prove the existence of the supernatural. But her serious, methodical research is constantly dismissed as “compellingly anecdotal” by a skeptical world, personified by her arrogant former mentor,