Briar Lake has one rule:Do not go near the water after midnight. When Ember Lark returns home to her small Tennessee town, she expects a summer of diner shifts, old gossip, and figuring out what to do with her broken life. She does not expect a man to rise from the lake. Cassian Hale drowned in 1954. Or at least, that is what everyone believes. But Cassian has been trapped beneath Briar Lake for seventy years, bound to a crown he never asked for and a curse that refuses to stay buried.
Briar Lake has one rule:Do not go near the water after midnight. When Ember Lark returns home to her small Tennessee town, she expects a summer of diner shifts, old gossip, and figuring out what to do with her broken life. She does not expect a man to rise from the lake. Cassian Hale drowned in 1954. Or at least, that is what everyone believes. But Cassian has been trapped beneath Briar Lake for seventy years, bound to a crown he never asked for and a curse that refuses to stay buried.