BERING DEPTH
Mara Solano is a commercial deep-sea salvage operator with thirty-two clean jobs and a reputation for precision retrieval. Her thirty-third contract takes her to the Bering Sea in October, four hundred meters down, to the wreck of the RV Meridian Reach. Within the first hour underwater, she discovers the wreck was deliberately sunk with a shaped charge. Before she can surface with this knowledge, a relay buoy activates, jamming her comms and giving saboteurs control of her submersible systems. In the wreck's specimen lab she finds what the dead lead researcher Dr. Yuki Tanase left behind: a data drive proving Arctis Maritime Group has been running a twelve-billion-dollar illegal mineral extraction operation. Mara must decide whether to surface with evidence that can be taken from her, or stay down long enough to broadcast Tanase's data through the dead ship's own emergency beacon before the saboteurs open her flood valve and end the conversation permanently.
A marine salvage expert descends into the Bering Sea on what looks like a routine recovery contract: retrieve the flight data recorder from a sunken research vessel. What she finds at four hundred meters changes everything. The ship was not lost. It was sunk. The twenty-two crew were not casualties of a pressure failure. They were murdered. And someone on the surface is watching via a relay buoy she cannot locate, controlling systems inside her submersible that she did not know were compromised. She has seventy-two hours of oxygen, no communications, and a dead scientist's evidence drive. The thriller is underwater. The adventure is surfacing with proof.
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