Lake Rot (The First Kings)

By Stevi Marie Cook

The ancient evil doesn't lurk in shadows-it lives in everything, waiting for its moment to rise.

When Natalie arrives at her family's remote cabin for a quiet summer retreat, she's immediately haunted by Tonya Conway's disappearance. Her visions defy reason, pulling her into impossible connections with a missing woman she's never met and toward Sheriff Calian Miller, whose presence feels bound to her soul.

Calian has spent his life protecting this small town, but Natalie's arrival awakens something buried within him-something powerful. He realizes he's not just chasing a missing person. They are standing at the precipice of an ancient cycle stirring back to life.

The evil has always been here, woven into the fabric of existence itself. Tonya's disappearance is the first domino to fall, the first tremor of a supernatural upheaval that will shatter the modern world. This is the awakening.

Lake Rot opens The First Kings series with a slow-burn descent into supernatural horror. Here, in these first crucial moments, destiny begins to stir, bonds across lifetimes start to surface, and three souls discover they carry within them the seeds of humanity's salvation-or its doom.

Perfect for readers who love small-town horror with epic supernatural scope, soul-deep romance, and the creeping dread that everything you know is about to change.

Book Two coming soon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FRSX44ZZ
• ISBN13: 9798265252586
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 103 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"