Dead Lake, a supernatural thriller by Darcy Coates is a story of an artist Sam, who is battling the artist block and hence decides to take a week off from city life and stay in recluse at her uncle's lake house cabin with no neighbours, no phone hence no distractions at all. But there is something deeply unnatural niggling in the lake. Sam discovers that someone is stalking her. She catches the glimpses of a tall, strange man standing at the end of dock, staring intently into the swirling water below, but when she goes out there he is gone... Most of the time she is hallucinating as she does not remember painting anything and yet her hands are covered with paint. Someone had crept into her cabin disabled her car and other communication devices leaving her stranded with no way of contact. Later, she discovers that a lot of people have gone missing on a hiking trails close to where she is living now. Will she survive...
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