Clergy Lake

Clergy Lake is a psychological literary thriller about how history disappears—not through theft or violence, but through care, procedure, and systems that work exactly as intended.

Carlotta Indranova is a preservation specialist in a quiet Vermont town where objects are maintained, documented, and rarely questioned. But when artifacts begin surfacing without clear origin—misattributed, absorbed into public record, quietly legitimized—she realizes the danger isn’t corruption. It’s process.

Each step is reasonable. Each handoff is justified. And once something enters the record, reclaiming it becomes not only difficult, but socially unacceptable.

Moving through antique shops, estates, municipal meetings, and institutional corridors, Carlotta confronts a mechanism designed to erase authorship without ever appearing to steal. Preservation becomes possession. Stewardship becomes camouflage. Responsibility becomes a weapon.

Cold, precise, and quietly unsettling, Clergy Lake is a slow-burn novel about memory, power, and the savagery of order—where nothing is taken by force, and everything is documented.