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Debut Novel · Coming Soon
The Light Behind
the Mountain
A Novel · Contemporary Fiction
When a group of longtime friends gather for a winter weekend at Lantern House, an AI-powered ski retreat housed inside a restored nineteenth-century inn in North Conway, New Hampshire, they expect fresh snow, familiar company, and a chance to reconnect. What they don't expect is a house that seems determined to understand them better than they understand themselves.
Over four days in the White Mountains, old friendships are tested, memories are reconsidered, and carefully constructed versions of the past begin to give way to something more honest. Through Adaptive, the AI system that quietly runs Lantern House, each guest is reflected back to themselves with unsettling clarity, forcing them to confront the distance between who they thought they'd become and the lives they've actually built.
The Light Behind the Mountain is a contemporary novel about friendship, reinvention, and what happens when something can see us more clearly than we're used to seeing ourselves.
Friendship & Shared Histories
Reinvention & Second Chances
Technology & Self-Understanding
The Places That Shape Us
Genre
Contemporary literary fiction
Setting
North Conway, New Hampshire
For Readers Of
Meg Mitchell Moore, Jaime Day, Catherine Newman, J. Courtney Sullivan