In the quiet town of Rangeshore, a grim anniversary looms. Twenty years after a tragic accident at a marine park, a haunted man named Cal Morrigan and the remorseful scientist who helped create the park's "monsters" are forced to confront a terrifying truth. The creature they thought they'd contained was just a shadow of something older, wiser, and infinitely more powerful. As a storm gathers, a journalist desperate for a story stumbles into a decades-old reckoning, a secret buried not in the ocean floor, but in the heart of humanity's hubris.When their past finally surfaces, the men must board a vessel and face a creature of myth, an ancient, scarred being that isn't seeking prey, but answers. A mesmerizing and terrifying journey into the abyss, this is a story where the ocean doesn't forgive-it waits.