The Lost Depths

<p><strong> Some secrets are meant to stay buried. Others demand blood when unearthed.</strong></p><p><strong> </strong>When investigative journalist <strong>Katherine Warden</strong> follows whispers of a long-lost Spanish galleon to the Caribbean Island of Isla Esperanza she expects resistance corruption and danger. What she doesn't expect is to vanish.</p><p>Three centuries earlier the <em>Santa Isabella</em> went down in a storm that was no accident-taking with it an iron chest containing something far more powerful than gold. Now someone has found it. And they're willing to kill to keep its secrets.</p><p>Enter <strong>Adrian Taylor</strong> a former covert operative who has spent years running from his past. Pulled back into the shadows by Katherine's disappearance Adrian is forced to return to the world he swore he'd left behind. As he races against time to find her he uncovers a vast smuggling network a ruthless collector and a truth rooted in colonial theft and buried history.</p><p>Together Katherine and Adrian must navigate treachery shifting alliances and the unforgiving depths of both the ocean and human ambition. With the past rising violently into the present they face an impossible choice: expose the truth and lose everything-or let history stay buried forever.</p><p><strong>A gripping blend of high-stakes suspense slow-burn romance and atmospheric adventure </strong><em><strong>The Lost Depths</strong></em><strong> explores the cost of truth the weight of history and the courage it takes to choose love in the face of darkness.</strong></p>