Under the still waters of Lake Iliamna lurks a predator forgotten by time ...
Travel writer Geoff Connelly came to Alaska looking for a break and an easy story to send home to his editor. But when he pulls up to the Sitka Lodge on the remote shores of beautiful Lake Iliamna, he finds a community wracked by questions he didn't A new mine on the lake's far shores promises work, but at what cost? Why is wealthy sportsman and CEO Philip Kendrick hanging around the lodge, and why does he seem so interested in the lake? And most disconcerting of Why are people--lodge guests and locals alike--suddenly disappearing?
To answer these questions, Geoff teams up with an alluring biologist named Renee Bach, the Sitka Lodge's shrewd but formidable owner Christa Yagulik, and a roguish documentary filmmaker named Mac MacDougall. But as people begin to die--at the hands of an ecoterrorist, and in the jaws of a creature thought to exist only in legend--Geoff begins to wonder who he can really trust. Soon it's not only the scoop of the century that's at stake for Geoff. It's his very survival.
I'm a writer, naturalist, and historian living in Colorado Springs. I'm a former Air Force officer and have a career in consulting to feed my writing habit (and my family, of course). I published my first book in 1995 and claim an all-time persistence award: the fantasy Raven's Quest, originally submitted to a publisher in 1983, made it to print in 2018. I'm a longtime aficionado of space exploration, paleontology, zoology, cryptozoology, and several other things. I have a collection of figures, toys, and models of the Devonian-era armored Dunkelosteus terrelli and maintain a FaceBook site for this scary-cool predator. I wrote about it in Prehistoric Times (Summer 2018) and am bringing it to life in fiction as well.