"- Mommy? Are you there?

- Norma?

- Is everything all right?

- Everything's fine. I just want to go home is all.

- Where are you?

- I already told you.

- Tell me again.

- Outside a pharmacy on the coast. It's almost dawn and I'm barefoot.

- Barefoot?

- I don't know if he's the guy.

- When you find the guy, you can come home.

- I know. It's just, the longer I'm here the more it...

- it hurts?

- And it's just that we dropped I don't know how many pills. Couldn't you just come get me? You can drop me back, okay? I just need a break. I'd like to see

to...

Deep below the island, something monstrous lies waiting for Thettie, and it knows her name.

-Family and small town desires and secrets simmer in J. S. Breukelaar's melancholy and affecting mix of literary, noir, and horror by the lake. ALETHEIA is a compelling 21st century ghost story. Don't lose your Gila monster ---Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and Disappearance at Devil's Rock.

The remote lake town of Little Ridge has a memory problem. There is an island out on the lake somewhere, but no one can...