The Undertow

Book Three of The Dead Alive. Adrift after the Goliath's collapse, Harlan and Juno find one last chance at survival: a crippled supply ship, already sinking, already infested with something worse than the dead they've learned to fight. Below deck, a welder named Opal has kept a handful of survivors alive through sheer stubbornness. Above deck, a storm and a failing structure are running out of patience with all of them. Getting off the ship means fixing a helicopter nobody understands, crossing a stairwell that shouldn't hold weight, and trusting people who have every reason not to trust each other back. It means paying a price nobody's ready to pay twice. And once they're finally clear of the wreckage, a fractured radio transmission tells them the water itself has started changing, into something faster, smarter, and far harder to stop than anything they've survived so far. The Undertow is the next chapter in Harlan and Juno's fight to survive a world that keeps finding new ways to drown, and a warning that the worst of it may still be ahead. The story continues in Book Four, Dead Water.