The debut novel from Tim Stone about a devastating earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, two shocking murders, and a dark force buried under an ancient lake. A young immigrant searching for answers about a horrible crime in his past - his mother thrown off the roof of his family's Kiev townhouse. Meanwhile, a dogged Washington police chief struggling to crack the case of a mysterious stranger, riddled with stab wounds, found dead in her sleepy lakeside town. Nothing is what it seems. High strangeness reigns supreme.