<p><strong>To save her daughter's soul, a grieving mother must battle a sinister pastor who feeds off the cremains of the dead and haunts a lake community.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">"A beautiful, seismic novel." -</span><em style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes</em></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">When Jewel Jordan dies from cancer,&nbsp;her father's wish is to scatter the&nbsp;ashes inside&nbsp;their beloved Torch Lake. But after the grieving mother hears her daughter's voice coming from inside the urn, </span><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)"><em>how can she let the ashes go?&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">Especially after a mysterious pastor begs her to keep them and promises to reunite her with her daughter's spirit.&nbsp;</span><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)"><em>Who should she listen to?&nbsp;</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)"><em>&nbsp;</em></strong><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">Even creatures from the lake whisper to her at night, pleading for the remains of her daughter.&nbsp;</span><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)"><em>Who can she trust?&nbsp;&nbsp;</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">Nobody knows the truth and the bargain she made&nbsp;that led to her daughter's death. Now she has to fight to save her child's soul, and Torch Lake holds the answers. But the lake is cold, the truth is deep, and it will take the ultimate sacrifice, for </span><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)"><em>the Lake Speaks Most Honestly to Those Willing to Drown.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">&nbsp;</span></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">"Matthews is the reigning king of modern psychological horror."</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">-</strong><span style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Kin</span></p>