A cinematic sci-fi trilogy by Matt Rook

The Long Stall

A mountain lake. A lodge that has stood on its shore since 1908. Five old friends, one storm-bound night. Something beneath the water has been waiting much longer than that.

The Laguna Lake Trilogy
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The Laguna Lake Trilogy

THE CALL DIDN'T COME FROM ABOVE

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The Old Mine Trilogy

A PREQUEL TO THE LAGUNA LAKE TRILOGY
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Book I

Impact

SOMETHING STEPPED OUT

Winter closes on a logging crew when something enters the mountain — and starts to feed.

SUMMER 2026
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Book II

Hollow

STAND TOGETHER OR FALL ALONE

The survivors climb into the breach to find what's hunting them, and what answers from the sky.

FALL 2026
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Book III

Answer

SOME THINGS CAN'T BE KILLED

One man stands at the water's edge against the thing in the mountain.

WINTER 2026
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About the Author

Matt Rook

Matt Rook is a biochemist and software engineer who writes science-fiction thrillers. His work draws on a career spent understanding how living and code-based systems work and how they fail.

When he isn't writing, he can be found doing the things that taught him how to build worlds that hold together: running experiments, writing and debugging code, and chasing the details that give science fiction its sense of possibility.

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The Long Stall blends survival mystery, first-contact tension, and atmospheric sci-fi horror into a tightly connected episodic trilogy.

Built for readers who like contained locations, impossible phenomena, escalating consequences, and the sense that the universe is listening back.

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