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The Lantern Beast surfaces October 13, 2026.
TITLE : The Lantern Beast
AUTHOR: Archer Wilder
RELEASE DATE: October 13, 2026
PAGE COUNT: 440
RETAIL PRICE: TBD
GENRE: Contemporary Paranormal Fiction
PUBLISHER: Owlpenny Press
ISBNs
Kindle ebook: 9798996072507
Paperback: 979-8-9960725-1-4
DESCRIPTION: A photographer is driven back to a lake town by dreams she can't explain and finds a lawyer, a hundred-year-old secret, and something in the water that has been waiting for her.
SUMMARY: When modern threats to Lake Fortune leads to an increase in strange phenomena, a struggling photographer and a corporate lawyer search for answers and find them in a hidden workshop that reveals a century-old connection to a local legend. Racing against time, they must decipher the Lantern Beast's desperate warnings while navigating their feelings for each other—before the devastating power beneath the lake leads to the demise of the unsuspecting town.
AUTHOR BIO: Archer Wilder was raised by Robert Stack and Indiana Jones, and spends an irresponsible amount of time researching cryptids, strange lights, small-town legends, and a historical record that doesn’t always quite ring true. The writing happens in the California desert, between building the world of The Inconvenient Atlas, making lamps out of skulls, and vacuuming up after two Australian Shepherds.
TROPES
Small-town lakeside love story > Sierra Nevada, cozy winter setting
Opposites attract > free-spirited travel photographer x buttoned-up lawyer
Homecoming heroine > the place that calls you back
Stoic hero who falls hard
Gentle guardian creature / cozy cryptid > the monster is a friend
Two people who share a secret the whole town half-believes
Found family
Race against the clock > save-the-town-together stakes
Dual POV
Guaranteed HEA
Closed door / fade to black
TRIGGERS
Life-threatening near-drowning
On-page medical emergency
Backstory grief > parental abandonment; death of a parent (off-page, past)
Harm to a beloved non-human creature (it survives)
URLs
SOCIAL LINKS
https://www.threads.com/@thearcherwilder
https://www.instagram.com/thearcherwilder
CATEGORIES
Paranormal Romance
Contemporary Romance
Small Town & Rural Romance
COMP TITLES
For fans of Deborah Harkness and Heather Fawcett's Emily Wilde series — and readers who wished Remarkably Bright Creatures had a love story.
Download High-resolution and social graphics from Google Drive
About the Author
Archer Wilder was raised by Robert Stack and Indiana Jones, and spends an irresponsible amount of time researching cryptids, strange lights, small-town legends, and a historical record that doesn’t always quite ring true. The writing happens in the California desert, between deciphering The Inconvenient Atlas, making lamps out of skulls, and vacuuming up after two Australian Shepherds.
Archer does not appear in photographs, attend events, or discuss sources. Archer may, on occasion, answer a letter, provided the letter is interesting.
You can contact Archer by email.
