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The Octopus: A Thriller
Something massive is moving beneath the waters of Puget Sound.
When disgraced marine biologist Dr. Leah Trask returns to Friday Harbor after a decade in exile, she expects nothing more than routine field research aboard the aging vessel Catalyst. The job is small, the funding is thin, and the work should be quiet.
But the ocean has other plans.
Strange sonar readings begin appearing near the deep canyons of the Sound. A whale carcass washes ashore marked with enormous suction wounds. Fishing boats vanish in calm water. Divers report shadows moving in the dark far below the trench.
Then Leah finds the records.
Decades earlier, a classified research program captured deep-sea creatures for experimentation inside a hidden underwater facility. The scientists thought they were studying intelligence.
They never realized what they had trapped.
One specimen escaped.
Now it has grown into something vast, scarred by captivity and frighteningly aware of the world above it. As viral footage spreads panic across the region and reckless thrill-seekers flood the water searching for the “Red Deep,” Leah and park ranger Mason Reeve race to uncover the truth behind the abandoned experiments.
Because the creature in the trench is not a mindless monster.
It remembers.
And in the cold, black depths beneath Puget Sound, it has begun to hunt.
Be among the first to dive into this terrifying deep-sea thriller. Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE today!
When disgraced marine biologist Dr. Leah Trask returns to Friday Harbor after a decade in exile, she expects nothing more than routine field research aboard the aging vessel Catalyst. The job is small, the funding is thin, and the work should be quiet.
But the ocean has other plans.
Strange sonar readings begin appearing near the deep canyons of the Sound. A whale carcass washes ashore marked with enormous suction wounds. Fishing boats vanish in calm water. Divers report shadows moving in the dark far below the trench.
Then Leah finds the records.
Decades earlier, a classified research program captured deep-sea creatures for experimentation inside a hidden underwater facility. The scientists thought they were studying intelligence.
They never realized what they had trapped.
One specimen escaped.
Now it has grown into something vast, scarred by captivity and frighteningly aware of the world above it. As viral footage spreads panic across the region and reckless thrill-seekers flood the water searching for the “Red Deep,” Leah and park ranger Mason Reeve race to uncover the truth behind the abandoned experiments.
Because the creature in the trench is not a mindless monster.
It remembers.
And in the cold, black depths beneath Puget Sound, it has begun to hunt.
Be among the first to dive into this terrifying deep-sea thriller. Click BUY NOW or READ FOR FREE today!
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Published April 8, 2026
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May 26, 2026
Entertaining enough, though frustrating.
I love me a good giant monster story. Make it an octopus and my love grows.
That being said the ploy was solid, but the number of that many false ends in a novella was truly exhausting. Mix that in with dialogue supposedly spoken by a well aged deck crew where no one uses contractions? Ooooph.
But hey, it was engaging enough to keep me reading to the end, so there’s that.
I love me a good giant monster story. Make it an octopus and my love grows.
That being said the ploy was solid, but the number of that many false ends in a novella was truly exhausting. Mix that in with dialogue supposedly spoken by a well aged deck crew where no one uses contractions? Ooooph.
But hey, it was engaging enough to keep me reading to the end, so there’s that.
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