Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Some secrets should never surface.
Phoebe “Phibs” Ray is never more at home than when she’s underwater. On a dive six months ago, she and her four closest friends discovered a handful of ancient gold coins, rocketing them into social media fame. Now, their final summer together after high school, they’re taking one last trip to a distant Australian island to do what they love most—scuba dive.
While diving a local reef, Phibs discovers a spectacular underwater sea cave, rumored to be a lost cave with a buried treasure. But when Phibs and her best friend Gabe surface from the cave, they notice that they're undergoing strange changes. Oozing gashes that don’t heal. Haunting whispers in their heads . . . Something has latched onto them, lurking beneath their skin, transforming them from the inside out.
When treasure hunters arrive, desperate to find the location of the cave and hold Phibs’ group for ransom, she’ll do anything to keep her friends safe. In the process she learns that, of all the dreadful creatures of the sea, she might be the most terrifying of them all.
"Like the ocean, this book is at once both beautiful and terrifying . . . A read you won’t want to surface from."
—Harriet Reuter Hapgood, author of How to Be Luminous
"Gripping, compelling, and fantastic . . . submerges you in an underwater thriller that will take your breath away. I couldn't put it down!"
—Sarah Beth Durst, award-winning author of The Lake House
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Order Your Copy Now: bit.ly/OutOfAirShort
Some secrets should never surface.
Phoebe “Phibs” Ray is never more at home than when she’s underwater. On a dive six months ago, she and her four closest friends discovered a handful of ancient gold coins, rocketing them into social media fame. Now, their final summer together after high school, they’re taking one last trip to a distant Australian island to do what they love most—scuba dive.
While diving a local reef, Phibs discovers a spectacular underwater sea cave, rumored to be a lost cave with a buried treasure. But when Phibs and her best friend Gabe surface from the cave, they notice that they're undergoing strange changes. Oozing gashes that don’t heal. Haunting whispers in their heads . . . Something has latched onto them, lurking beneath their skin, transforming them from the inside out.
When treasure hunters arrive, desperate to find the location of the cave and hold Phibs’ group for ransom, she’ll do anything to keep her friends safe. In the process she learns that, of all the dreadful creatures of the sea, she might be the most terrifying of them all.
"Like the ocean, this book is at once both beautiful and terrifying . . . A read you won’t want to surface from."
—Harriet Reuter Hapgood, author of How to Be Luminous
"Gripping, compelling, and fantastic . . . submerges you in an underwater thriller that will take your breath away. I couldn't put it down!"
—Sarah Beth Durst, award-winning author of The Lake House
Available Wherever Books Are Sold
Order Your Copy Now: bit.ly/OutOfAirShort
