Going to the Six

By A.C. Hessenauer

On Lake Superior, some wrecks never rest.

When acclaimed documentary filmmaker Owen Wheeler leads a four-person crew aboard a Michigan DNR research vessel to investigate the wreck of the Keuka-a floating speakeasy long lost beneath the cold, black waters of Lake Superior-he believes he's chasing history. What they bring back instead is something far stranger.

Told through fragmented footage, blog journals, news clippings, and Owen's own testimony from inside a psychiatric facility, this haunting novel unfolds across two timelines: the ill-fated expedition, and the haunted present. Just as the record fractures, so too does Owen's grip on what truly happened aboard the vessel.

Locals whisper of an old superstition-six signs that come before a person loses their mind. Did the crew uncover a secret buried with the Keuka? Or are Owen's memories a labyrinth of guilt, grief, and madness?

A story of truth versus memory, the collapse of time, and the thin seam between reality and delusion, Going to the Six drags the reader down into the depths-where silence presses in, light cannot reach, and dread waits patiently in the dark.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1964780616
• ISBN13: 9781964780610
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"