"In this sleepy resort town, there are far more secrets than dreams."
Tracey hates Timber Lake. Stuck working late shifts in a dead-end, soulless American diner far from her home in England, she thought the worst thing about the back of beyond was the overwhelming boredom and the endless jokes from the locals. She was wrong.
That all changes when a sudden, violent explosion shatters 13th Avenue, knocking Tracey out of her usual daydream and plunging the neighborhood into full-blown supernatural chaos. An ancient demonic entity, re-energized after centuries of isolation in the stagnant depths of the lake,awakens to unleash a horde of parasitic, flesh-mutilating spawn upon the unsuspecting community. Overnight, Timber Lake transforms into a brutal landscape of graphic horror, bizarre mutations, and deadly secrets buried deep beneath the forest floor. Fleeing through the smoldering woods with terror closing in from every side, Tracey uncovers a terrifying reality that changes everything she thought she knew about the town.
Yet, pulsing beneath this blood-drenched nightmare is the distinct, uncompromised footprint of the Hobsonverse, where Darren Hobson deliberately steers the horror into a vivid, tongue-in-cheek homage to classic B-movie fandom. Written with an intentional cinematic cheesiness, the text gleefully balances genuine atmospheric dread with ridiculous tropes and sharp, unfiltered British wit. Facing instant life-or-death choices against forces both human and inhuman, will Tracey’s gritty nature and dry, cynical sarcasm be enough to survive the night? Step into Timber Lake, where the survival odds are stacked terrifyingly high—and nothing is quite what it seems.