In Altea, there are three major rules. 1 - Don't fall in love with members of the same sex. 2 - Don't fall in love with humans. 3 - Don't rise up against the Altean Empire to gain independence while fighting another uprising empire at the same time. Somehow, Keith and Lance manage to break all three rules.

When a Navy veteran is attacked by a man-eating monster fish in the Bahamas, he has to save himself, and the world, from the madman who created it. Jake Solomon, a naval intelligence officer turned scientist, is on a research mission in the Bahamas when he's attacked by a man-eating monster fish. Determined to expose the corporation who created the creature before they can unleash it on the world, he teams up with his marine biologist ex-girlfriend to face off against the Ocean Blue Corporation and its elusive chairman. But Jake soon finds himself the target of assassins, super soldiers, and a Japanese hitman hellbent on stopping him. (Book One in the Sea Lab Series.)