The Object in the Dry Lake
Overview
When a brutal drought exposes a chrome-like object buried deep beneath a dried lake in Briar Hollow, Texas, Rowan Rusk and Maeve Calder are called to investigate what should not exist. What they find is not wreckage-but a vessel older than human memory, built to survive something the world has forgotten.
As the sky begins to fracture and reality itself tears open, the object awakens.
Cryptids emerge from the darkness, drawn not to hunt-but to witness. The possessed walk in broken forms, speaking in layered voices as the Harvester reveals itself openly, turning entire towns into living fractures. Inside the vessel, shifting glyphs and impossible star maps reveal a terrifying truth: this has happened before.
Civilizations have faced this collapse.
None survived without sacrifice.
As ancient systems begin to activate, Rowan and Maeve are identified as something more than human-an anchor capable of stabilizing reality itself. But the cost of becoming that anchor may erase them completely.
With time collapsing and extinction approaching, they must decide:
Save the world...
or remain themselves.
Because this time, survival demands more than resistance.
It demands transformation.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798295742897
- ISBN-10: 9798295742897
- Publisher: Apophis Enterprises LLC
- Publish Date: March 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.28 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 130
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