Silent Waters

Marine biologist Elise Moran has the numbers to prove Puget Sound is dying—and the bruises to prove someone wants her quiet. Every sample screams the same truth: a toxic stream is bleeding into the bay. Every official door slams shut.

Ryder Shaw swore off crusades after exposing a government scandal detonated his life. Now he lives off the grid on a weather-beaten sailboat, trading algorithms for solitude. Until Elise lands on his deck with a hard drive, a target on her back, and a case he can’t ignore.

What begins as a reluctant alliance becomes a race through rainy docks, midnight ferries, and shadow labs that masquerade as “green” innovation. Each clue points to Horizon Quanta—a darling of clean tech with a secret it would kill to bury. Each step drags Ryder closer to a past he’s never confessed…a past that might bind him to the enemy.

When the Sound’s apex predators wash up dying and a staged “sustainability” showcase hides a catastrophic dump, Elise and Ryder set a trap—streaming the truth to the city that lives and breathes the tide. But with hired muscle closing in and a corporation rewriting reality in real time, one mistake will cost more than their lives.

Silent Waters is a pulse-pounding eco-thriller about the price of justice, the risk of love, and what we owe a coastline that raised us all.