The Lake Doesn’t Give Back

Everyone in the border town can see the castle on the island. No one can reach it. The lake takes a toll from anyone who comes near. First the road that brought them. Then the reason they came. And for those who go deeper, themselves. The blacksmith forgot his wife’s name. The old hunter’s son walked into the fog twelve years ago and never came back. And three years ago, Eli Cole’s partner Mara disappeared into that water—while he chose the job over her. Eli has come back to do what he failed to do then: cross the lake, find her, bring her home. But the lake does not give back what it takes. It only lends. Everything he brings out of it will be hollow. As he walks through the fog toward the castle, he loses a name, then a photograph, then the feeling in his arm. What he finds on the island will ask him the one question he has spent three years running from: whether the one truly lost is Mara… or the man who keeps walking. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Lake Doesn’t Give Back — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠