Midnight in Soap Lake

A lake with mysterious properties. A town haunted by urban legend. Two women whose lives intersect in terrifying ways. Welcome to Soap Lake,a town to rival Twin Peaks and Stephen King’s Castle Rock. When Abigail agreed to move to Soap LakeWashingtonfor her husband’s researchshe expected old-growth forests and craft beerfolksy neighbors and the world’s largest lava lamp. Insteadafter her husband jets off to Poland for a research tripshe finds herself alonein a town surrounded by sand and haunted by its own urban legends. But when a young boy runs through the desert into Abigail’s armsher life becomes entwined with his and the questions surrounding the death of his motherEsme. In Abigail’s search for answersshe enlists the help of a recovering addict turned librariana grieving brothera broken motel owner and a mentally shattered conspiracy theorist to unearth Esme’s tragic pastthe town’s violent history and the secret magic locked in the lake her husband was sent there to study. As she gets closer to the answerspast and present crimes begin to collideand Abigail finds herself gaining the unwelcome attention of the town’s unofficial mascotthe rubber-suited orchard stalker known as TreeTopa specter who seems to be lurking in every dark shadow and around every shady corner. A sweepingdecade-spanning mystery brimming with quirky characters and puzzle-hunt scenariosMidnight in Soap Lake is a modern-day Twin Peaks–a richexpansive universe that readers will enter and never forget.