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Lake Okeechobee
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 9 2026
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the dark, oxygen-rich depths of Lake Okeechobee, everyone has a job. The bass hunt. The gators rule. And Vince? Vince just tries to stay invisible.
Vince is a small fish with a big problem: the Upstairs has arrived. To the humans on their glittering bass boats, it's just a high-stakes fishing tournament. But to the creatures below the Silver Skin, it's an all-out invasion of neon lures, humming lines, and Giant Lasers that can pull a fish into the sky and never let them go.
A Tactical World Under the Surface Vince lives by the Lanes and Gaps, a secret system of navigation that keeps the small from being swallowed by the large. But when the tournament turns the lake into a chaotic war zone, the old rules start to break. The Quiet Places are disappearing, and a prehistoric threat known as The Curve is waking up in the deep.
A Team of Unlikely Heroes To save their home, Vince must coordinate a group of Secret Guardians that no one in their right mind would trust:
Pip: A high-energy Pumpkinseed with a Lava Rules philosophy and a vocabulary he definitely overheard from the humans.
Ledge: A grumpy, silent bird who acts as the lake's unofficial Janitor, pluckily fixing the mess the humans leave behind-one hook at a time.
Bellow: A massive, flatulent Bass who believes that if you let things be messy, they sort themselves out.
Franks & Beans: Two manic Psycho Bass who treat every neon lure like a personal insult and every movement like an Eleven-Thirty Threat.
The Stakes are Rising As the tournament reaches its peak, the water tightens. Vince realized that Stealth is a state of mind, but when the Big One comes down, mindsets won't be enough. He'll have to lead his team through a gauntlet of Shiny Ropes and Psychological Warfare to prove that the lake belongs to the ones who stay-not the ones with the loudest motors.
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