Scorpion Deep

Jonathan Covey lives on Kelcarrow, a gloomy, decaying island, and wants nothing except to leave it. Summer is almost over. His friends are heading to college on the mainland, and none of them knows that Jonathan was turned down. He faces a winter alone with the sea and a growing fear of being abandoned.

In a moment of desperation, he pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, a sea god that many islanders treat as a myth. He hopes to forget the past and follow his friends away. The ritual works, and the god wakes.

The novel is a dark fantasy with an eldritch, horror-tinged edge, told around one lonely boy and one ancient creature. Jonathan is terrified, yet he feels pulled toward the entity, which is just as fixated on him. Scales begin to grow along his spine, and the god's devotion turns violent.

Jonathan comes to see that the only way out is to destroy the monster. A god once woken demands a price in blood, so freedom will not come cheap. Expect an unsettling, atmospheric read where attraction and dread run side by side.