{"title":"Bones of the Deep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/jfpennbooks.com\/pages\/read-an-excerpt-of-bones-of-the-deep\" title=\"Read a free chapter of Bones of the Deep by J.F. Penn\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e📖 Read a free chapter of Bones of the Deep →\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSome graves are meant to stay underwater.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarine archaeologist Eve Calder has spent fifteen years clawing for the recognition her talent deserves. So when a secretive billionaire collector offers her the find of a lifetime — the perfectly preserved skeleton of a non-human \u003cem\u003esaint\u003c\/em\u003e, lifted from a shrine on a South Pacific seamount — she takes the job and tells herself it's research, not theft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bones are sealed in the hold of the \u003cem\u003eSouthern Crosswind\u003c\/em\u003e, a sixty-year-old tall ship carrying paying tourists on the voyage of a lifetime: two thousand miles of open Pacific under sail, from Suva in Fiji to Port Vila in Vanuatu. For a few perfect days there is nothing but blue water, full canvas, and the Southern Cross burning overhead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen, three days out of port, something begins to move beneath the keel. Sharks gather in unnatural, disciplined formation. A strange song travels through the timbers at night. And then comes the knocking on the hull — three deliberate beats, over and over, as if something is asking to be let in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaptain Rourke and his crew have their secrets. The wealthy passengers have theirs. But the deepest secret lies in the hold — because the people of the water remember what was taken from them, and they have crossed the open ocean to bring their saint home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the bodies begin to fall and rescue slips further out of reach, Eve must decide how much she is willing to pay for her ambition — and whether some debts can only be settled in blood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe ocean always takes back what is hers.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePerfect for Readers Who Love:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMira Grant's \u003cem\u003eInto the Drowning Deep\u003c\/em\u003e (deadly merfolk and deep-sea dread)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDan Simmons' \u003cem\u003eThe Terror\u003c\/em\u003e (a doomed vessel stalked by an ancient predator)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeter Benchley's \u003cem\u003eJaws\u003c\/em\u003e (primal terror of what hunts beneath the surface)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMichael Crichton's \u003cem\u003eSphere\u003c\/em\u003e (an intelligent, unknowable presence in the deep)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFolk horror rooted in real Pacific mythology — the shark god Dakuwaqa and the people of the water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClaustrophobic, single-location survival thrillers with nowhere to run\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCosmic horror where humanity is small, trespassing, and out of its depth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMorally compromised protagonists forced to face the cost of their choices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStories that ask who really has the right to own the dead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStory Details:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ocean Horror, Supernatural Thriller, Folk Horror, Survival Thriller\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSetting:\u003c\/strong\u003e Aboard a tall ship crossing the South Pacific (Suva, Fiji → Port Vila, Vanuatu), and a shrine in the deep ocean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Standalone novel. Available in ebook, paperback, large print, special edition hardback, and audiobook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMood:\u003c\/strong\u003e Atmospheric, tense, claustrophobic, escalating dread\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThemes:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ambition and greed, the ethics of taking the dead, colonial plunder, respect for ancient knowledge, and how little we truly know of the deep ocean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContent note:\u003c\/strong\u003e Contains horror violence, creature attacks, and peril and death at sea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Book:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eBones of the Deep\u003c\/em\u003e blends the deep-sea horror of \u003cem\u003eInto the Drowning Deep\u003c\/em\u003e with the doomed-voyage dread of \u003cem\u003eThe Terror,\u003c\/em\u003e and it's drawn from life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1999, author J.F. Penn crossed the South Pacific by tall ship from Fiji to Vanuatu. The beauty was staggering, the isolation absolute, and she never forgot the question that surfaced out on all that empty water: what might be waiting down there? This standalone thriller is the answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA standalone ocean horror thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author J.F. Penn.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bones-of-the-deep-paperback","title":"Bones of the Deep Paperback","description":"\u003ch3\u003eSome graves are meant to stay underwater.\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarine archaeologist Eve Calder has built her career salvaging what the sea tried to keep. 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