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Ines Roque lost her brother in the 2011 crossing. She has never said his name aboard.
Now the Pelagia is anchored over the Tenney Seamount, laying Rook Ferreira's sensor net around a trench whose depth kills sonar and whose current has never been kind. Every mile of cable is a bet, and Ines knows what the sea does with bets.
Priya Naicker has proof there is only one animal down there. Kit Saracen has a documentary deal contingent on more footage. Dr. Ilse Brandt of the Sanctuary Authority has a suspension order she has not yet served. Halden Voss, the fishing captain who once ran the coast against them, has appeared on the horizon with an offer nobody in the foundation trusts. And the pumps that keep the coral alive are, Priya finally realizes, the sound that calls her.
Then a colossal shadow crosses the drone camera at forty-one meters. Then it comes for the hull. Then it makes a habit of it.
When Rook goes over the side of an inflatable raft in broad daylight, on camera, on the last recovery mission he will ever accept, four billion people will be watching what a Category-6 predator does to a professional who is doing everything right.
Book Two of four in The Meridian Sanctuary series. The escalation begins.
