A haunting psychological–supernatural thriller about trauma, temptation, and the long road to hope.

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Eighteen-year-old Alison Halse is drowning in depression and anxiety. One quiet June morning in Baraboo, Wisconsin, she walks into Devil’s Lake intending never to return.

 

But something stops her.

 

A mysterious stranger named Philip appears—calm, magnetic, and impossible to explain. Around him, the noise in Alison’s mind finally quiets. His touch soothes the darkness within her... but it may also feed it. The peace he offers comes at a price that could claim more than her life—it could claim her soul.

 

First serialized on Wattpad (2014), later an Indies Today finalist (2019), and now reimagined for its tenth anniversary, Devil’s Lake returns with new scenes and refined prose. This edition deepens the original’s psychological and spiritual undercurrents, exploring what happens when despair meets the seductive illusion of healing—and what it truly means to fight for the light.