Ruth Lake: A Gnostic Noir Thriller of Memory, Betrayal, and the Signal Beneath the Lake (The Resonance Cycle) Hardcover – August 26, 2025

RUTH LAKE: The Signal Between WorldsA Gnostic Noir Thriller of Memory, Betrayal, and the Signal Beneath the LakeIn the dying light of the 1990s, survivalist Teddy Solomon returns to his family's abandoned cabin on Ruth Lake—only to find the lake changed, humming with buried secrets and Cold War echoes. His claim on lost engines drags him into a federal sting, a broken love story, and a signal that seems to call his name from the deep.Michelle Roberts, a woman with Bureau scars and a haunted past, arrives under false pretenses. She’s not just here for the wedding. She’s carrying something—part evidence, part warning. When an old flame reemerges and an engagement party turns into a surveillance trap, loyalties fracture and memory begins to behave like electricity.What lies beneath Ruth Lake isn’t just water—it’s a web of forged deeds, ancestral betrayals, and resonance technology that bends time and grief. Locals speak in code. Antennas twist wrong. And someone—maybe everyone—is being watched.In the tradition of Chinatown, Red Sparrow, and As Above, So Below, this rural noir thriller fuses gnostic mystery with romantic paranoia—set in a Northern California where the past can be recorded, but never escaped. Read more