Signal from the Salt Sea

<p>Centuries after the oceans boiled away the salt flats of a dead seabed stretch to every horizon. Echo hunter Tarn Harker has spent his life scavenging fossils and fragments from the ruins of a drowned world. But when his battered detector picks up a persistent signal-one that thrums with eerie purpose-he knows it is no echo. It is a summons.</p><p>The trail leads Tarn and a ragtag crew across scorched deserts into the abyss of a long-buried trench where they uncover the <em>Ardent</em> a research vessel impossibly preserved beneath the salt. Its corridors hum with forgotten power its logs whisper of experiments gone wrong and its sealed chambers conceal something alive... and waiting.</p><p>As the signal grows stronger the crew realizes they haven't found a relic of the past but a gateway to something far older-and far more dangerous-than humanity itself. What began as salvage becomes survival and what waits in the salt sea may not let them leave.</p><p>Atmospheric relentless and infused with cosmic dread <em>Signal from the Salt Sea</em> is perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer's <em>Annihilation</em> and James S.A. Corey's <em>The Expanse</em>. Step aboard the <em>Ardent</em> if you dare-but remember some signals should never be answered.</p>