the Castle Beneath Lake: 4

The lake has been singing for generations.After surviving Blackstone Manor, Elena Cross thought the worst of the curse was behind her. But when the second black key leads her to Mournmere, a quiet town built beside a dark lake, she discovers a new nightmare waiting beneath the water.Children hear music no adult wants to explain. Missing people are erased from records. Families lock their windows at sunset. And every night, voices rise from the lake, calling the living toward a castle no one can see-until the storm comes.When the drowned castle rises from the water, Elena, Dante Vale, Sheriff Nora Pike, and Mrs. Holloway must uncover the truth behind Mournmere's silence before another child is taken. But the monster beneath the lake is not only a ghost. He is King Leoric, the Drowned King, a betrayed ruler who steals children's voices to keep his dead kingdom alive.As the town's secrets break open and the lake begins to claim the innocent, Elena must face a terrifying choice: follow the black key into the heart of the drowned castle, or let Mournmere keep paying for survival with stolen children.Packed with horror, action, suspense, emotional family drama, dark humor, monster battles, and a chilling series mystery, The Castle Beneath the Lake is Book Two of The Blackstone Curse Chronicles.Because Blackstone Manor was only the first door.The second waits beneath the water.