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Dirk was feeling lost and lonely. His wife Patricia had announced that she was struggling to feel any purpose in her life and had decided to move into an apartment for a time period to sort things out. Dirk was strongly motivated to change something to put his family back together, and decided to sell his share of the business and invest in a summer resort based around a beautiful, remote, spring-fed lake in Arkansas. Unfortunately, he didn’t ask enough questions about the history of the lake . . . It wasn’t until after he brought his three children to stay for the summer that he became fully aware of a history of missing persons. Patricia decided to stay at her apartment and continue sorting out her feelings. Within a few days, his fourteen-year-old daughter was attacked by something that came from the lake. She narrowly escaped with her life, due to the quick action of old Bill Ocherman, who feared that his son had already disappeared in the lake and had begun a nightly vigil. As Dirk struggled to make sense of what had happened, he decided to hire Rodney, a biology student that was also a highly experienced diver. Over time, Rodney learned more and more about the monster that was large enough to block the flow of the underground spring as it was passing back and forth between the lake and some underground chamber. But Rodney, friend and expert diver Eddie, and Dirk’s son Brad were unable to imagine the size, speed, and mind-boggling power of the strange, underwater behemoth.