{"product_id":"dead-water-scott-p-hicks-9798294922719","title":"Dead Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDead Water\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadow Protocols, Book 3\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLake Superior is not giving up its dead.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt is sending them back wrong.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Major Cassandra Morgan boards a drifting freighter outside Duluth Harbor, she expects sabotage, smuggling, or some classified military disaster no one wants named. What she finds is worse: frozen bodies with impossible injuries, equipment stamped with a buried government project, and water that moves as if it remembers things that have not happened yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCass is trained to trust evidence, chain of command, and the hard edge of procedure. But the lake is breaking every rule she knows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vanished research program called \u003cb\u003eDeep Gauge\u003c\/b\u003e has left something buried beneath the harbor. A private tech company wants to control it. A missing brother may have been pulled into it years before. And every new anomaly brings Duluth closer to catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo stop it, Cass must work with Dr. Gabriel Reyes, a brilliant scientist whose theories sound insane until the lake starts proving him right. Together, they uncover a pattern hidden in old wrecks, strange harmonic signals, Indigenous warnings, and a deadly machine built to turn time itself into a weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the deeper they go, the more the lake pushes back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBodies age in seconds. Boats appear where they should not exist. Voices come through the static from the wrong year. And beneath the black water, something vast is waking around a pulse no one can shut off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDead Water\u003c\/b\u003e is a fast-paced supernatural techno-thriller about buried experiments, ancient warnings, military secrets, and the terrifying idea that some places do not forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside this thriller, you will find: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA deadly Lake Superior mystery\u003c\/b\u003e where the past and future collide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA hardened military investigator\u003c\/b\u003e forced to question everything she trusts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA brilliant scientist\u003c\/b\u003e racing to decode an impossible signal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA vanished brother\u003c\/b\u003e whose disappearance may be the key to stopping the disaster\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA classified experiment\u003c\/b\u003e buried beneath a city on the edge of collapse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eHigh-stakes action, eerie atmosphere, and escalating supernatural danger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA complete thriller arc\u003c\/b\u003e with a chilling final hook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eCass has survived combat, betrayal, and classified operations built on lies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut nothing in her life prepared her for a lake that can remember forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd if she cannot stop what is rising beneath Duluth, the next wreck may not come from the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt may come from tomorrow.\u003c\/p\u003eBack-of-Book Blurb\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLake Superior is not giving up its dead.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Major Cassandra Morgan boards a drifting freighter outside Duluth Harbor, she expects a military crisis. Instead, she finds frozen bodies, impossible injuries, and evidence tied to a buried research project called \u003cb\u003eDeep Gauge\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deeper Cass digs, the more the lake turns against her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTime fractures. Old wrecks return. A missing brother leaves traces from years he may not have lived. And beneath the harbor, a hidden machine begins pulsing with a signal that could tear Duluth apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith scientist Gabriel Reyes at her side, Cass must uncover the truth before a private defense contractor turns the lake into a weapon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Lake Superior has been keeping its own record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it remembers what comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Scott P. 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