This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

The lake doesn't just hold secrets. It projects them.

What if the thoughts in your head aren't your own?

For years, Greg's family vacations centered around a quiet stretch of shoreline on Clarks Hill Lake. Across the water sat a small, wooded island that seemed to draw the eye no matter how hard you tried to ignore it. To entertain the children around the campfire, Greg created a story, spinning tales of restless spirits, shifting shadows, and an unseen force watching from the darkness. He called it The Island of Lost Souls. The stories were never meant to be anything more than harmless fun, a local legend invented to send the kids to bed with nervous laughter.

But Greg had no idea that beneath the waters of Clarks Hill Lake lay the remains of Petersburg, a once-thriving nineteenth-century town deliberately flooded when the reservoir was created. He knew nothing of the lives displaced, or the history buried beneath the depths.

Then, the line between fiction and reality began to blur. Out of place objects surfaced along the shoreline, shadows refused to move when they should, and the island itself seemed to actively respond to the stories being told about it. As Greg struggles to distance himself from the growing phenomenon, he discovers something even more disturbing: complete strangers in different towns are telling versions of the exact same legend.

The most terrifying realization is that he may not have invented the story at all. He may have simply been the first person to hear it.

The Island of Lost Souls is a chilling supernatural thriller about forgotten history, the power of storytelling, and what happens when a legend begins writing itself.