Safety Stop
Two rival captains. One sabotaged sub. No room for secrets.
Bennett 'Grave' Cole, Captain of the DSS Leviathan, has spent ten years hunting for the truth behind the Academy Incident that stripped him of his rank. The proof lies in the wreckage of the Chimera, a prototype submarine sunk in the Arctic Circle. But he’s not the only one hunting. Vesper 'Viper' Cress, Captain of the mercenary ship The Vulture—and the woman Bennett believes betrayed him—arrives at the coordinates first with orders to bury the past forever.
A catastrophic ice shelf collapse forces the two rivals into a dangerous alliance. When the Chimera is located in a trench too deep for divers, Bennett and Vesper are forced to co-pilot the Abyssal Glider, a cramped two-person submersible. As they descend into the dark, a cold-blooded sabotage disables the sub's systems. Forced to share body heat to survive the freezing depths, the walls between them begin to crumble, revealing that Vesper's betrayal was actually a sacrifice to save Bennett’s life a decade ago.
With oxygen running critical and a corporate assassin monitoring their every move from the surface, they must navigate a lethal underwater canyon. Bennett is forced to trust Vesper’s brilliance over his own instruments as they race to retrieve the black box and reach the surface. In the high-pressure world of the Abyssal Zone, they'll learn that the only thing more dangerous than the ocean is the truth rising to the surface.
The Blurb
Bennett 'Grave' Cole, Captain of the DSS Leviathan, has spent ten years hunting for the truth behind the Academy Incident that stripped him of his rank. The proof lies in the wreckage of the Chimera, a prototype submarine sunk in the Arctic Circle. But he’s not the only one hunting. Vesper 'Viper' Cress, Captain of the mercenary ship The Vulture—and the woman Bennett believes betrayed him—arrives at the coordinates first with orders to bury the past forever.
A catastrophic ice shelf collapse forces the two rivals into a dangerous alliance. When the Chimera is located in a trench too deep for divers, Bennett and Vesper are forced to co-pilot the Abyssal Glider, a cramped two-person submersible. As they descend into the dark, a cold-blooded sabotage disables the sub's systems. Forced to share body heat to survive the freezing depths, the walls between them begin to crumble, revealing that Vesper's betrayal was actually a sacrifice to save Bennett’s life a decade ago.
With oxygen running critical and a corporate assassin monitoring their every move from the surface, they must navigate a lethal underwater canyon. Bennett is forced to trust Vesper’s brilliance over his own instruments as they race to retrieve the black box and reach the surface. In the high-pressure world of the Abyssal Zone, they'll learn that the only thing more dangerous than the ocean is the truth rising to the surface.
"A heart-pounding survival thriller where the emotional pressure is more dangerous than the water pressure. The 'sharing body heat' scene in the submersible was absolute perfection!"— Rylee Vance