The rules were simple-until the lake decided to make its own.When Emma and Blake meet at Shadrack Resort on Table Rock Lake, they're both trying to forget what came before. But the water doesn't forget. It remembers every storm, every lie, every body that sank beneath its surface.As summer unfolds, the pair uncover a decades-old secret buried in the lake's forgotten test basin-one that ties a local girl's disappearance to a government experiment meant to record the past through the vibration of water itself.Now, the storm is back. The inlet hums. And Cape Fair's quiet shoreline is about to learn that memories never really die-they just wait beneath the surface.A haunting romantic mystery filled with Ozark folklore, small-town tension, and echoes that won't fade, Lake Rules (Are Meant to Be Broken) is the unforgettable beginning of a story about love, loss, and what water knows.