Cold Friend
Overview
For 190 years, the people of Sable have sacrificed one of their own. This year, something went wrong.
Every New Year's Eve, one name is chosen. One person is Given. And at midnight, the lake takes them. No one runs. No one fights. No one questions why. Because generations of Sable families have been raised to believe a terrible truth: one life given willingly keeps everyone else safe. Then Earl Koski's name is drawn. He says his goodbyes. Puts his affairs in order. Sits alone in his kitchen and waits for midnight. The lake comes for him. And fails.
By morning, Earl is still alive. The people of Sable call it a miracle. They are wrong. Soon, residents begin remembering a woman named Sarah Finch. Some remember growing up with her. Others remember dancing with her, teaching her, arguing with her. Her face begins appearing in old photographs. Records prove she lived among them. There is only one problem. Sarah Finch never existed. And she isn't the only thing changing.
For Al Pruett, the impossible brings something far more dangerous than fear: hope.
Twenty years ago, Sable gave his eighteen-year-old daughter, Nessa, to the lake. Al has spent every year since setting a place for her at his table and living with the knowledge that she is never coming home.
But if the lake can fail... If the dead past can change... If people who never existed can somehow find their way into Sable... Then perhaps someone who was taken can find her way back.
Al begins searching for the truth behind the ritual his town has obeyed for generations. What he discovers is far worse than an old curse, because Sable hasn't simply been paying a debt. It has been keeping something out. And after 190 years, the door is beginning to open.
Some towns bury their secrets.
Sable has been feeding its own.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798160413778
- ISBN-10: 9798160413778
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.54 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.58 pounds
- Page Count: 214
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