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Title: Beneath
Author: Maureen A. Miller
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Publisher: Self-published
Genres: YA
Page Count: 340
Format: Print and digital
Synopsis:
An overnight fishing trip on the Atlantic Ocean…
It was Stella Gullaksen’s final break before starting her freshman year
at college. Joining her best friend, Jill, and Jill's family aboard the
STARKISSED, Stella wakes to a violent storm that capsizes the boat over a hundred
miles off the New Jersey shore.
As the waves
haul her under Stella knows that she is going to die. Instead, an unusual
current drags her deep into the underwater canyons of the Atlantic
Ocean. Powerless against the raging waters, she is suddenly sucked into a
ventilated cave. One by one, Jill and her family also emerge in the sunken
cavern.
With only a
faulty diving flashlight to keep oblivion at bay Stella and her best friend's
brother, Colin, search the cave in hope of finding a way back to the surface.
What they discover, however, is that they are not alone. There are other
survivors in this subterranean grotto–survivors spanning decades of maritime
disasters.
Will this
discovery prove salvation, or have they all been condemned to the same fate? A
grim finale at the bottom of the sea?
On an
alliance forged by friendship and attraction, Stella and Colin battle to escape
the danger that lies beneath.
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BENEATH Excerpt
Copyright
© 2018 Maureen A. Miller
She was going to vomit.
Stella Gullaksen looped her arm through
the tuna tower ladder. The LED spotlights cut through the storm, revealing a
pool of seawater on the cockpit floor of the sport fishing boat. The brine was
creeping up to her calves now. Across from her, Col, her best friend’s brother,
wrapped a rope around his arm like a boa constrictor. Dark hair was pasted to
his forehead and his eyes were lost in the night, but the bright red coil in
his free hand was visible enough. He nodded at her and tossed it.
Stella clawed at the darkness,
squinting against the blinding fusion of rain and saltwater. The rope
unraveled, winding through the water, eluding her grappling hand. Finally, she
latched onto it and read his encouraging nod to secure it around herself.
Trembling fingers attempted the task, but another black wave smashed into the
hull, cascading against her hip and nearly tossing her over. She clung to the
aluminum rigging.
This was to have been a weekend fishing
jaunt, a last respite before her freshman year in college. Stella’s best
friend, Jill Wexler, was also a freshman at the same college. They met each
other as freshmen in high school when Stella moved to Monmouth County from
Pennsylvania. They were polar opposites in personality, but somehow it worked,
and they had been attached at the hip since.
Jill’s parents owned the STARKISSED, a
32’ Topaz Express saltwater fishing boat. It was a tight squeeze to fit Donald
and Anne Wexler, their eighteen-year-old daughter, Jill, their twenty-year-old
son, Colin, along with Stella. It was only for a night, though. It took too
long to reach the New Jersey underwater canyons, where yellowfin tuna fishing
was at its best. They had to spend the night out at sea and were due back into
port late tomorrow evening.
Inside the cockpit, she saw Don Wexler
hunched over the steering wheel, smacking the radar display. His curses were
loud enough to carry over the maelstrom.
“I checked with the Coast Guard. I
checked the satellite. The weather was clear!”
The defense seemed lame given their
current predicament. Did it matter what the weather report claimed? They were
over a hundred miles off the coast of New Jersey in the center of a mean
tropical storm. The fact that it was the middle of the night was just a cruel
bonus.
Stella cast a frantic look at the cabin
hatch now submerged under several inches of water. Jill was down there, along
with her mother. Only a few moments ago Stella had been with them. When the
storm struck, her stomach was the first to protest. She rushed up to the
cockpit in search of air, and instead, emerged into chaos.
About Maureen A. Miller:
USA TODAY bestselling author, Maureen A. Miller
worked in the software industry for fifteen years. She crawled around plant
floors in a hard hat and safety glasses hooking up computers to behemoth
manufacturing machines. The job required extensive travel. The best form of
escapism during those lengthy airport layovers became writing.
Maureen’s first novel, WIDOW'S TALE, earned her
a Golden Heart nomination in Romantic Suspense. After that she became hooked to
the genre. In fact, she was so hooked she is the founder of the JUST ROMANTIC
SUSPENSE website.
Recently, Maureen branched out into the Young
Adult Science Fiction market with the popular BEYOND Series. To her it was
still Romantic Suspense…just on another planet!
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