The Pod

For Claire Hale, Serenity was supposed to be a new beginning.

The forty-five-foot sailboat had crossed the Atlantic from Portugal before Claire, her husband Nathan, and their two children ever stepped aboard. Now moored in Halifax, she promises everything they dreamed of-open water, distant harbours, and a life measured by wind instead of schedules.

Then the orcas appear.

At first, their interest seems extraordinary but harmless. Until one animal-a female with a distinctive notch in her dorsal fin-begins returning to Serenity.

Not to the other boats.

Only theirs.

As the encounters grow more unsettling, Claire begins asking questions about the yacht's Atlantic crossing. Questions the delivery captain doesn't want to answer. Questions buried in damaged equipment, missing hours, hidden recordings, and the memories of a crew scattered thousands of miles away.

Something happened aboard Serenity before she reached Canada.

And whatever happened, the orcas were there.

Now Claire must uncover what the yacht carried across the Atlantic before her family takes Serenity into open water again.

A tense, atmospheric thriller of family, survival, hidden history, and the mysteries that remain when certainty runs out.

Some secrets cross oceans.

And some are waiting when you arrive.