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The Second Drowning
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 23 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When the luxury cruise ship Halcyon suffers a sudden flood deep in its engine deck, the incident is written off as a mechanical malfunction-until the lead investor is found dead behind a locked door.
Investigator Julian Vale is called aboard to verify the cause. He expects corrosion. Negligence. Something human.
A terrified technician hiding in the dark.
A neural system built to detect fear.
A serum designed to amplify it.
And a pattern the AI recognizes in Julian alone-one tied to a drowning he's never escaped.
As the ship spirals toward disaster, Julian discovers that someone on board injected themselves with an illegal cognitive enhancer, forcing the ship's system to mirror their panic. The flooding wasn't an accident-it was a reaction.
And the investor wasn't alone when he died.
Someone else was with him.
Someone long thought dead.
Someone trained to break systems from the inside.
With the Halcyon sinking into terror and the truth unraveling by the second, Julian must confront the one person he hoped never to see again-or risk becoming the final casualty of a fear that refuses to stay buried.
A tense, atmospheric thriller about memory, guilt, and the cost of truth.
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