Publisher's Synopsis
In the heart of the Atlantic, help is a horizon too far.
The pirates struck in the dead of night, 1,700 miles from any shore. Armed raiders have hijacked a cruise ship, and retired crisis negotiator Johnathan Harper finds himself back in his old line of work. Except this time, he's inside the locked room, too, grappling with the ghosts of the greatest failure of his career. With much of the crew ejected by the pirates, not many remain who know the ship as intimately as Willa Thompson does. Now, she has to leverage this knowledge in a deadly game of cat and mouse, trying to unravel the enemy's tightly wound plans. Elsewhere on the ship, travel blogger Nina Collins unexpectedly finds herself leading a band of tourists planning a daring resistance. But as rumors swirl about pirate infiltrators posing as guests, Nina is faced with an impossible choice: trust, or survive. As the Navy closes in, John, Willa and Nina find themselves in a perilous web of deceit and danger-where one false step could send them all to the ocean floor.
