by T. J. Newman
First published 2023
Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in rising water inside a commercial airliner that has plunged to the ocean floor. Flight 1421 went down six minutes after takeoff when it crashed into the Pacific Ocean. An exploding engine during evacuation flooded the cabin, forcing survivors to seal the doors with twelve people still inside. Now the aircraft sits more than two hundred feet below the surface, balanced precariously on an undersea cliff. Above them, professional diver Chris Kent leads an elite rescue team in a desperate attempt to reach the submerged plane. Chris faces an impossible choice as she works to save both her daughter Shannon and her soon-to-be ex-husband Will, along with ten other trapped passengers. Time runs short as air supplies dwindle and the plane threatens to slide deeper into the abyss. The rescue operation becomes a race against physics and family dynamics as three members of one fractured family must overcome their personal conflicts to survive an unthinkable disaster.
Genres: adventure, contemporary, thriller, action
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Pacific Ocean
Period: 21st-century
304 pages · Hardcover · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Content warnings: death, graphic-violence