The Inland Sea

By Stacey Miller

When something enormous moves beneath Lake Michigan, the town notices-but not all at once.

At first, it's easy to explain away: a missing swimmer, strange sonar readings, water behaving slightly wrong. Dylan, a quiet teenager who has grown up beside the lake, feels the change before he understands it. As officials dismiss concerns and industry pushes forward, the lake begins to respond-not with violence, but with precision.

What follows is not a disaster movie, but a slow reckoning. Infrastructure fails where it was weakest. Boundaries long ignored are reasserted. And as the town struggles to adapt, Dylan becomes an unwilling witness to a truth most people would rather avoid: the lake is not attacking-it is correcting.

Spanning decades and widening from a single shoreline to interconnected freshwater systems, this novel explores what happens when natural systems are forced to carry human denial for too long. Quiet, unsettling, and deeply atmospheric, it is a story about limits, responsibility, and the cost of pretending depth is empty.

The lake does not need to be defeated.

It only needs to be respected.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJJWT1FW
• ISBN13: 9798233003141
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Stacey Miller
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"