The Long Stall: The Laguna Lake Trilogy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798181573055)

A remote lodge. A frozen lake. A silence that is not empty.

Lucas Hale has spent years trying to forget the lake beside his family's mountain lodge. As a teenager, he felt something beneath its surface-something impossible, silent, and aware.

Now his old friends have returned for a winter weekend, carrying old tensions, unfinished histories, and the fragile hope that time has made everything simpler.

It hasn't.

When a storm cuts them off from the outside world, the lake begins to change. The air stills. The snow falls wrong. The water freezes too quickly, too completely, as if the world itself has paused.

And beneath the ice, something begins to answer.

Atmospheric, intimate, and cinematic, The Long Stall is a first-contact science fiction series about friendship, sacrifice, buried secrets, and the terrifying beauty of the unknown.