An ambitious teen girl is forced to continue her family's legacy of secretly impersonating the town's famous lake monster, but suddenly finds a real monster in the lake who wants to eat its way through the populace.
Nicole M. Wolverton is the author of the adult psychological thriller The Trajectory of Dreams (2013) and served as the editor of Bodies Full of Burning (2021), an anthology of short horror fiction through the lens of menopause. She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer of short stories and writes creative nonfiction and essays as well. Her work has been published in over forty anthologies, magazines, and podcasts.