Secret of the Lake - DARK PAYHIP EXCLUSIVE

Condemned to die for crimes he didn’t commit, Kael expects execution.

Instead, the scanners mark him viable, a status every prisoner fears more than death.

Dragged into a stone tower built around a black, breathing lake, Kael learns the truth whispered by the other captives: the lake is alive. It watches. It chooses. And each night, something ancient rises from its depths to collect those it deems useful.

The creature does not kill.

It claims.

When Kael is taken beneath the surface, he is pulled into a living world of tendrils, heat, and crushing darkness. The organism studies him with unsettling precision, forcing Kael into a biological bond he cannot break.

But when he survives the ritual that ends most prisoners, the lake changes its behaviour.

It wants him again.

And again.

Returned to the tower altered and exhausted, Kael becomes the centre of a cycle older than the Order itself, one that blurs pain, survival, devotion, and the terrifying possibility that he was never brought here by accident.

A dark MM sci-fi monster romance of captivity, biological transformation, eldritch ritual, and the horrifying intimacy of being chosen by something that lives beneath the water.

Expect: MM monster romance, dark sci fi, tentacle creature, eldritch lake, biological transformation, forced proximity, prisoner ritual, body-horror fantasy, ancient organism, captivity & survival, chosen vessel, Order tower, underwater horror, dark exclusive, forced metamorphosis