Hannah Sampson knows terror. Unseeable, unknowable predators that lurk in the deep. She’s a cop, an expert scuba diver, and leader of the police underwater recovery and crime scene investigation team. For Hannah, diving is nasty business in polluted city lakes and frigid reservoirs where no one is ever found alive. When Michael Duvall, a scientist studying the destruction of the coral reef, is found dead under 70 feet of ocean in the Caribbean, Sampson heads to the islands to investigate. Why Duvall or anyone else would care about dying coral or a few dead fish is beyond Sampson’s comprehension. But murder, well, that’s another story.

In the process of her investigation, Sampson dives in a world unlike any she has ever known. The beauty of the reef is matched only by its serenity. Here she finds renewal, an escape from her frenzied world. But there is trouble in paradise--unknowable dangers lie beneath the crystal-clear waters of this idyllic paradise. The possibility of murder runs deeper and darker than the sea itself, and Sampson must discover for herself what lies beneath. Before it’s over, Sampson ends up in a life and death struggle on the ocean floor with an enemy who kills as a matter of course.

In this fast-paced thriller, Kathy Brandt weaves a tapestry of the sea--its mystery, its danger, its astonishing beauty. You will smell the salt in the air, discover huge coral columns rising from a sandy ocean floor, maybe even glimpse a sting ray before it disappears in the deep.