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The Bride of Black Lake
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 23 2025
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When newlyweds Ellen and David arrive at the remote Black Lake Lodge for their honeymoon, they're expecting peace and romance. But their whirlwind marriage has barely begun when Ellen realizes she doesn't truly know the man she's married. David is charming and careless, more interested in fishing and drinking than in her. Each night, he grows more distant - and each night, Ellen hears someone crying down by the lake.
The locals say the place has bad luck, that storms never leave the lake without taking something with them. Ellen tries to ignore it, but soon she begins seeing things: a woman's shape in the water, a silver hairpin that won't stay lost, and a wedding photograph of a long-dead couple whose groom looks exactly like David.
As the days pass, the haunting becomes more personal - the ghost bride seems to know her, to move through her reflection, to whisper promises only she can hear. And when David's cruelty and indifference finally drive Ellen to the edge, the lake offers her a terrible kind of peace.
When a storm finally breaks over the mountains, Ellen walks out to the dock one last time. By morning, she's gone - and a radiant, affectionate Ellen sits beside David at breakfast, smiling as though nothing ever happened.
The lodge staff whisper that the drowned bride of fifty years ago has found her love again. Others say Ellen simply became what David wanted all along - silent, perfect, and devoted. Either way, Black Lake keeps its secrets.
Dark, romantic, and quietly tragic, The Bride of Black Lake is a gothic tale of love gone cold, of possession in every sense of the word, and of how the living and the dead sometimes deserve each other.
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