{"product_id":"the-long-stall-matt-rook-9798181573055","title":"The Long Stall: The Laguna Lake Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA remote lodge. A frozen lake. A silence that is not empty.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow his old friends have returned for a winter weekend, carrying old tensions, unfinished histories, and the fragile hope that time has made everything simpler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt hasn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd beneath the ice, something begins to answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAtmospheric, intimate, and cinematic, \u003cb\u003eThe Long Stall\u003c\/b\u003e is a first-contact science fiction series about friendship, sacrifice, buried secrets, and the terrifying beauty of the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matt Rook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181573055\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Matt Rook","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173692907775,"sku":"9798181573055","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35fecae4-d0f4-4553-bde2-72a500d34a33.jpg?v=1788956012","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-long-stall-matt-rook-9798181573055","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}