Imaginative Of the Deep

In 2075, humanity finally has the technology to reach the deepest, darkest place on Earth. What they find is a city built entirely of gold, glowing at the bottom of the ocean, and utterly alone in four hundred years of silence.

Nine people descend in a submersible twenty years in the making: two engineers, three billionaires, three pilots, and one woman who simply wanted to see it before it belonged to anyone. They take four pieces of the city and return home unimaginably rich.

They don't return home alone.

For centuries, ships and planes have vanished in that stretch of ocean, dismissed as storms, currents, bad luck. Nobody ever asked what was singing beneath the waves. Now the nine who took the gold hear it every night, in dreams that are never quite dreams, and one by one, they begin to unravel, drowning without water, disappearing without leaving, paying a debt they don't remember agreeing to.

The gold was never treasure. It was a grave. And something down there wants what's owed.