Gray Lake — David Bain

Teenage friends Brian and Iggy suddenly find themselves living the ghost stories and urban legends they love one night as they watch a car drive across the moonlit surface 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 car's arrival heralds a downward spiral as he dreams of its sometimes lovely, sometimes ghastly occupants chauffeuring him into murky depths.

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 ghost car, coupled with the unstable gang members' obsessions, will drive Brian, Iggy and others toward fateful choices, hurtling headlong into a violent and deadly showdown on the spectral shores of Gray Lake.

David Bain is a community college English professor and author of several story collections with well over 100 publications in venues as diverse as Weird Tales and Poems & Plays. Watch for DEATH SIGHT, the first novel in the Will Castleton series, coming this summer.