In a town shaped by water and long winters, the lake gives-and the lake keeps.When a body is pulled from the freezing water after a sudden storm, the official explanation is simple: an accident. But in a place where silence is a shared language and memory runs deeper than truth, nothing settles so easily.As old tensions resurface and buried histories begin to stir, the lake becomes more than a setting. It becomes a witness. A quiet presence holding what the town has learned not to name.Lake Effect is a slow-burn psychological mystery steeped in atmosphere and unease, where the real danger lies not in what is hidden, but in what is collectively ignored. Through shifting loyalties, fragile trust, and the weight of unspoken guilt, the novel explores how communities protect themselves-and what they sacrifice in doing so.Dark, restrained, and haunting, Lake Effect asks a chilling question: What happens when a place remembers more than the people who live there?