The Southern Seam
Book Two of The Line Beneath the Water
The southern shoreline has stabilized.
The anchors are holding.
The basin is balanced.
But balance is not the same as containment.
After a series of inland flattening events expose a buried history of glacial pressure and forgotten mound removals, hydrogeologist Dr. Maren Kessler and Coast Guard investigator Hale uncover something far older than the Michigan Triangle.
The system beneath Lake Michigan was never just a triangle.
It was a lattice.
And now it's evolving.
When a massive inland flattening event reveals a corridor carved by ancient ice - a spine stretching far beyond the shoreline - the truth becomes undeniable: the basin is no longer restoring itself.
It is migrating.
Anchors can prevent rupture.
They cannot prevent movement.
As pressure begins branching along forgotten meltwater channels beneath towns and river systems, Maren must confront a terrifying realization:
The lake does not need containment anymore.
It remembers something older than shorelines.
And once it begins to adjust, it will not stop at water.
For readers of slow-burn ecological horror, geological suspense, and intelligent supernatural thrillers, The Southern Seam widens the world of The Michigan Triangle into something far larger - and far more inevitable.