The ship was supposed to have died in a storm. The wreck says otherwise.
Former Coast Guard rescue swimmer Renn Mackey has built a quiet life beneath the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest. She trusts tide tables, pressure gauges, and steel more than she trusts people.
Then a routine salvage survey takes her 140 feet down to the wreck of the MV Prosper.
The hull has been blown open from the inside.
The cargo manifest is a lie.
And a sealed compartment holds equipment no civilian vessel should be carrying.
Renn removes a ruggedized data module from the wreck. Before she can surface, an armed response team boards the salvage tug. Her dive partner is killed, and Renn escapes by swimming blind through freezing water with the evidence strapped to her body.
By morning, she is officially missing and presumed drowned.
Hunted along the Washington and Oregon coasts, Renn discovers that the Prosper carried an off-the-books maritime surveillance system. Its destruction was ordered under a standing protocol built to erase compromised operations, control official investigations, and eliminate anyone who sees too much.
The files could expose the network. But digital evidence can be discredited, intercepted, or buried.
To make the truth impossible to ignore, Renn must return to the wreck during a violent Pacific storm and recover the hardware before the cleanup team reaches her.
She has one weather window. One borrowed boat. And no room left to run.
The ocean didn't kill the ship. Now the people who did are hunting the only witness left.
Blacktide Reckoning is Book Three in the Rogue Protocol series.
