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The Lake That Kept His Name

For ten years, Lyra faced monsters with two swords and Thomas at her side. Now she has the swords. The dragon’s attack shatters their lives, and Thomas walks away. So Lyra is back on the road with a horse named Biscuit, a few pointed words, and letters for a man who never replies. There are still villages to protect. Still monsters to kill. Still mornings when she reaches for someone who isn’t there. Now the monsters are speaking in his voice. Across the kingdoms, letters arrive from the dead. Children will tell you of brothers and sisters that never were. Doors open into lives that never happened. The Hollow Dragon is behind it all, an ancient creature that preys on memory and has discovered exactly what Lyra craves. A home by the lake where they first met. An evening with Thomas at the hearth, reading aloud. A life where he stayed. She knows it isn’t real. She remembers being happy there anyway. As those impossible memories begin crowding out her real past, Lyra must fight to preserve the people, choices, and scars that made her who she is. But the creature is learning with every encounter. And it has all the time in the world to make surrender feel like coming home. The Lake That Kept His Name A tragic fantasy of devotion, memory, and the terrible things that survive love.

Genres

Fiction_Fantasy_Dark Fantasy

ISBN

9798907975804

Format

Print / Hardback

Contributor

Tawnya Emke

Author

Tawnya Emke is a Kentucky-based writer of dark fantasy with touches of horror, drawn to fierce devotion, complicated love, flawed heroes, and the terrible things that survive after everything else is gone. Her storytelling roots began in years of creating custom RPG worlds, where she developed a love for strange places, impossible choices, and characters forced to become something new in order to survive. By day, she works in engineering project and account management, solving problems, organizing chaos, and relying on Excel more than any reasonable person probably should. She lives in Kentucky with her son and two cats, who have somehow promoted themselves to senior management. "The Lake That Kept His Name" is her debut novel. She believes grief can become art, survival can become a story, and sometimes the woman who fights the dragon is simply the woman who gets up the next morning and keeps going.