The Girl Beneath the Sea

Sloan McPherson grew up in a Florida family of scandalous treasure hunters and drug smugglers, and she is working to build a different life for herself and her daughter. She is an auxiliary officer with Lauderdale Shores PD, where she is the diver called in to recover evidence from the water.

Then she finds a freshly killed woman floating in a canal. The dead woman has a murky past, and it overlaps with Sloan's own. Those ties make Sloan look less like a witness and more like a suspect, and her colleagues begin to watch her closely.

The killer is watching too. An assassin is stalking Sloan, a ruthless cartel is hunting a lost fortune, and suspicion is growing inside her own department. Her one ally is the legendary DEA agent who once put her uncle in prison. He knows how far corruption reaches and what kind of danger she faces.

This is an adventure thriller set in and around the waters of Florida, with a police-procedural frame and an underwater specialist at its centre. The pressure builds from several directions at once, and Sloan has to stay ahead of enemies she can see and others she cannot, as a growing conspiracy tries to drag her under.