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Gray Lake: A Novel of Crime and Supernatural Horror
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Ongoing, First published Dec 30, 2011
Teenage friends Brian Henderson and Scott "Iggy" Ignatowski suddenly find themselves living the ghost stories and urban legends they so love one night after a spectral encounter on the shores of GRAY LAKE. At the same moment, in the marshes to the north, the battle for dominance over a troubled gang of small town meth dealers begins.

For Iggy, the encounter heralds a downward spiral as he dreams of the sometimes lovely, sometimes ghastly dead ushering him into murky depths of the lake. For Brian, it issues in a season of dark love in the form of Maya, a devastatingly beautiful but strangely enigmatic girl he meets on the lakeshore.

Soon the mysteries of the boys' encounter with the supernatural, coupled with the unstable gang members’ obsessions, will drive Scott, Iggy and others toward fateful choices, hurtling headlong into a violent and deadly showdown on the spectral shores of Gray Lake. 

Note: This excerpt contains mature language and drug use.
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