Beneath the Lake of Glass

Architecture student Nora Bellamy has spent her life studying the city’s hidden structures, but when she witnesses a man vanish through a shimmering fracture inside a subway station, reality itself begins to crack apart. Beneath the streets of Chicago lies Aethelgard — a forgotten city buried under Lake Michigan, where memories are currency, shadows breathe, and silver-eyed guardians protect secrets humanity was never meant to uncover.

As Nora’s mysterious ability known as the Sight awakens, she becomes the target of a ruthless organization determined to erase the hidden world forever. Forced to flee with Lucien, a cold and dangerous being born from the fractures themselves, Nora descends into a labyrinth of ghost stations, impossible architecture, and buried truths surrounding her father’s disappearance.

But the deeper she goes beneath the lake, the more she realizes the city isn’t merely hiding secrets.

It is alive.