The Chronicle of the Lake

THE EAGERLY AWAITED SEQUEL TO AN EXCEPTIONAL DEBUT NOVEL, DEBORAH BARWICK AGAIN LEADS US INTO THE DARK REALMS OF FANTASY. TRAGEDY REUNITES ETHAN FREER AND HIS BROTHER, JAKE, AWAKENING A REMORSELESS EVIL FROM DECADES PAST. KINSHIP, IT SEEMS, IS NOT THE ONLY THING THAT BINDS THEM TO ONE ANOTHER.THE PLIGHT OF A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER PULLS THE FREERS INTO THE HEART OF THE WELSH HILLS WHERE EMOTIONS LONG REPRESSED ARE STIRRED. ETHAN FINDS HIMSELF UNWITTINGLY DRAWN INTO A WORLD OF MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT. A HIDDEN LAKE PROTECTS A TAINTED SECRET, LEGENDS FROM CENTURIES PAST ARE RESURRECTED, AND A CHARMING STRANGER LURKS IN VILE, BLOOD-SOILED SHADOWS, UNTIL, FINALLY, THE CORRUPTED VEIL IS LIFTED TO REVEAL THE TRUE NATURE OF THE BEAST.