Lake of Souls is a ghost story with a difference, combining a fast-paced plot with intriguing reflections on the nature of faith, religion, the afterlife, good and evil. David Peters is a skilled craftsman: a builder, with a wife and young daughter, and recently bereaved of his father. He takes on a difficult restoration job at the local manor house, Falstead Priory, in the hope of more work from the estate and a more regular income. However, when he enters the drainage tunnels under the lake he is nearly killed by an inexplicable water surge. His saviour, to his utter disbelief, is the spirit of a young woman, Jeanne, whose soul has been held there against its will since her death in the sixteenth century. David promises to help her and all the others similarly trapped, and in doing so begins his own spiritual journey towards a destiny he could never have imagined would be his to claim. Brian Rhodes spent many years in horticulture as a garden designer and contractor, and it was when surveying a subterranean tunnel that the idea for this book was born. He lives in Alton, Hampshire.