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Dark water rippling at night
A supernatural horror novel

Ripple in Dark

"Lovely girl. Terrible accident. The lake takes one now and then."

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Available now · 2026

A file with no return address. A town with no place on the map.

She was found at the waterline beneath the carcass of a slaughtered deer, a symbol cut into her skin. The coroner's report settles on one careful word: arranged.

Seven years after burying his wife, Joseph Moore keeps himself upright with routine: a used bookstore in Augusta, Maine, and a true-crime podcast that treats other families' tragedies gently. Then a copy of the Sinclair file lands on his counter with no return address. The town it describes appears on no map. Joseph tells himself it is only material for season two.

The FBI agent who led the case is in a locked ward now, unable to explain why his own recordings no longer match his memory.

Joseph goes looking for the town anyway.

Something beneath the lake has been waiting for him.

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"Lovely girl. Terrible accident. The lake takes one now and then."

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