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Beneath the Escalante: A Lake Powell Story
When salvage diver Tom Jackson is hired to inspect a sunken houseboat in the remote depths of Lake Powell, he expects a routine job. What he finds changes everything.
Deep beneath the surface of the Escalante River arm, Tom discovers more than a submerged wreck — he stumbles upon a underwater cave entrance that leads to two teenage girls trapped in an underground cavern. Also inside is a cache of Ancestral Puebloan artifacts untouched for centuries. Getting the girls out alive is the easy part. Deciding what to do with what he found is not.
Tom's wife Michelle is bedridden, their finances are stretched to breaking, and those pots could solve everything. No one would ever know. But Tom knows — and so does Michelle, when he finally tells her.
As the National Park Service's Investigative Services Branch begins asking questions that cut closer to the truth, Tom is forced to reckon with the kind of man he wants to be. In the canyon country of southern Utah, where the water runs deep and secrets run deeper, the line between protection and theft, love and justification, has never felt so thin.
Beneath the Escalante is a gripping story of moral courage, quiet heroism, and the lengths a man will go to for the woman he loves.
Deep beneath the surface of the Escalante River arm, Tom discovers more than a submerged wreck — he stumbles upon a underwater cave entrance that leads to two teenage girls trapped in an underground cavern. Also inside is a cache of Ancestral Puebloan artifacts untouched for centuries. Getting the girls out alive is the easy part. Deciding what to do with what he found is not.
Tom's wife Michelle is bedridden, their finances are stretched to breaking, and those pots could solve everything. No one would ever know. But Tom knows — and so does Michelle, when he finally tells her.
As the National Park Service's Investigative Services Branch begins asking questions that cut closer to the truth, Tom is forced to reckon with the kind of man he wants to be. In the canyon country of southern Utah, where the water runs deep and secrets run deeper, the line between protection and theft, love and justification, has never felt so thin.
Beneath the Escalante is a gripping story of moral courage, quiet heroism, and the lengths a man will go to for the woman he loves.
259 pages, Paperback
Published May 13, 2026
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