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Burning Seas
Hardcover
Publisher: Outcast Books
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Ocean Serenity is gone. Now the survivors who escaped it are dying beneath an empty sky.
After fleeing the destruction of the cruise ship that kept them alive for three years, Glenn Halloway, Lucille, Mateo, Parker, Sarah, Andrew, JJ, and the others are left adrift in a lifeboat beneath a merciless sun. Their water purifier is failing. Their bodies are shutting down. And something is circling beneath them.
When sharks marked by strange lesions begin stalking the lifeboat with unnatural aggression, Glenn is forced to confront a terrifying possibility: the Crimson infection may no longer be confined to human beings. The world they thought they understood is changing again, and this time even the ocean may no longer be safe. The sharks move erratically, attack with unusual persistence, and begin testing the boat itself.
Then they find land. A fortified island belonging to Blackfin Biotechnologies offers everything the survivors have nearly forgotten-clean water, food, electricity, medicine, laboratories, armed protection, and walls strong enough to keep the infected outside.
For the first time since civilization fell, safety seems possible.
But Blackfin didn't survive the apocalypse by following the old world's rules.
The island is controlled by Jonah Wallace Sr., a powerful biotechnology executive who has transformed his private refuge into something between a research colony, military compound, and kingdom. Families are separated. Questions are discouraged. People disappear.
The infected are being studied rather than merely destroyed.
And somewhere beneath Blackfin's spotless laboratories, experiments are pushing the Crimson into forms no one was meant to survive.
As Glenn and his companions search for missing friends, they discover children and adults being used as test subjects, experimental infection trials, altered variants known as Clickers, and a program built around one ruthless idea:
If humanity cannot defeat the Crimson, perhaps it can learn to control it.
But control always has a cost.
When people Glenn cares about are pulled into Blackfin's experiments, his fight becomes personal. The infection itself begins changing him in ways he cannot fully understand, while Lucille, Mateo, Parker, and new allies are forced to decide how far they are willing to go to destroy the system from within.
Outside the laboratories, resentment is already spreading through the island. Families separated onto barges want answers. Workers are questioning Jonah's rule. Guards are being stretched thin. The Crimson held offshore are becoming harder to contain.
All it needs is a spark.
Burning Seas is a relentless post-apocalyptic biohorror thriller blending infected sharks, genetic experimentation, mutated infected, human trials, authoritarian survival communities, maritime action, conspiracy, friendship, sacrifice, family, and brutal survival.
At the center of the story is Glenn Halloway, a former paramedic who has spent the apocalypse trying to save everyone around him-even as the infection begins threatening the one thing he has always relied on most: himself.
And as Blackfin falls into chaos, Glenn and his companions must fight their way through laboratories, rioting survivors, escaped Crimson, collapsing defenses, and a final nightmare at the seawall.
They escaped the ship. They survived the sea. Now they have to escape the people who believe the end of the world gave them permission to become monsters.
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