Beneath Deception Pass (Paperback, Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, Audible)
When sonar reveals an enormous cavern beneath Deception Pass, veteran diver Ryan Mercer recognizes the coordinates.
Forty years ago, his grandfather vanished while out on the water above that spot.
Ryan and four companions descend looking for answers. Inside, they discover an abandoned military station, restraints built long before the military arrived, and a pool of black water that seems untouched by the tides.
Then Ryan finds his grandfather’s broken flashlight.
His name is still scratched into the metal.
Before the team can get out, the entrance collapses.
Their only hope is an ancient passage climbing toward the surface. But as they search for daylight, their memories begin to fail. A camera captures things they cannot remember seeing. Black water moves through the passages around them.
And voices call from the dark.
A father. A daughter. A grandfather.
Each voice belongs to someone they have lost.
The divers know something is imitating the people they love. But recognizing the deception may not save them.
They can know it is a lie.
They can still want it to be true.
Beneath Deception Pass is a claustrophobic horror novella about grief, memory, and the people we cannot bear to leave behind.
