In the decaying fishing town of Fissure Point, Maine, the lighthouse doesn’t guide ships. It keeps something ancient and hungry in. When journalist Maria Claire Corrington receives a cryptic note from her dead grandmother — “The light lies. Come home.” — she returns to the isolated headland she fled sixteen years earlier. What she finds is far worse than a crumbling tower.

The town survives on a bargain no one dares speak aloud: memories traded for safety, identities erased for full nets and healthy children, entire lives quietly edited so the rest can keep breathing. The beam doesn’t warn sailors. It watches. It feeds. And it remembers every keeper who ever paid the price.

As SpringTide approaches and the fissure beneath the rocks begins to open, Maria discovers her family has guarded this secret for generations. Now the Light wants her — the one who remembers everything. Some towns are built on rock.Fissure Point was built on forgetting. And Maria Claire Corrington is about to tear that forgetting apart.The Light Lies is a chilling folk horror novel about memory, sacrifice, and the terrible cost of survival. For fans of atmospheric horror, haunted coastal settings, and stories where the real terror is what we’re willing to forget.