Ingram weaves a complex tale, filled with surprising twists and turns. I had a feeling I was going to like The Thing from the Lake when I discovered that every chapter started with a relevant quote pulled from the classics of the western canon, and I was right. What is the thing in the lake? Who is this woman? Can Roger defeat the dark force thereby returning himself and his cousins to their idyllic lifestyle? His visits quickly turn sinister, though, as a dark force based in the lake comes at night to threaten Roger away from the woman. His first night on the property, he meets a woman–whether spirit or alive, he can’t tell–and is promptly intrigued by her. He buys a house by a lake in Connecticut as a country retreat and appoints his cousin, Phyllida, and her husband, Ethan Veer, as caretakers of the property. In the 1920s Roger Locke is a composer living in New York City.
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