A haunting and beautifully written novel about love, loss, memory, and the mysterious connections between the past and present.

During a long, hot summer in Berlin, a British expat visits Teufelssee, a secluded lake surrounded by the Grunewald forest. While cruising one evening, he spots a stranger who looks remarkably like Lukas, a former lover who died almost thirty years earlier.

Unable to shake the feeling that he really has seen Lukas, he begins experiencing a series of increasingly strange encounters around the lake. As the summer unfolds, the boundaries between memory and reality begin to blur, leaving him questioning whether the people he sees are ghosts, figments of his imagination, or something altogether more mysterious.

Drawn deeper into the forest and its secrets, he finds himself confronting his past relationships, the passage of time, and the lasting impact of those he has loved and lost.

Part ghost story and part queer love story, this atmospheric and deeply emotional novel explores grief, desire, identity, and the ways our lives remain connected to people who are no longer with us.

A captivating read for fans of literary fiction, LGBTQ+ stories, and haunting novels that explore the mysteries of love, memory, and the supernatural.