Beasts of Oceanus

When Evan O'Neil inherits his grandparents' tiny, private island off the coast of the sleepy seaside town of Palmetto Dunes, he and his wife relocate there to begin life anew. But, upon arriving, they find a town and a people strangely untouched by time.It seems that Palmetto Dunes harbors a dark and deadly secret, and that the sea around their tiny island home might well be the beating heart of that evil. For something monstrous calls the surrounding ocean home, something with a deadly reach that extends well beyond the endless tides.

In the remote South Pacific, the floating, Kāoa Hotel and Resort welcomes its first lucky guests for a five day, four night stay in a tropical paradise. What they find, however, is Hell on the high seas.A man of the sea, Alex Gregory is living the dream. Working on the Kāoa feels more like a permanent vacation than a real job. However, not long after the guests arrive, things begin to go wrong. The sea becomes unsafe as the first of the man-of-wars arrive on the scene. Physalia physalis, 10 to 30 centimeters long, not including their stinging tentacles, their stings are powerful but seldom deadly.Just when Alex thinks things can't get any worse, they get far, far worse when an unimaginable menace finds them. Physalia Maximus, Man-of-war Supreme. Two to three meters in size, this never before seen species is not bound to the sea, the land, or the air.They are calculating, vicious, and ravenous.They swarm by the hundreds.They are an armada of death... and their hunger will be satisfied.

Spending his days out on the tidal mudflats digging for bloodworms wasn't a glamorous occupation, but it was honest work and it had always provided Joe Bryant and his forefathers a good life: a life he wouldn't change for anything. Yet, when things begin to happen; a wrecked lobster boat, a Great White shark bitten in half, and missing people, it soon becomes apparent that, like it or not, change has come to Joe's life anyway.Soon, the small coastal community of Tide Port is awash in a wave of death and transformation. The citizenry are being mutated into a strange new form of life. They are also being summoned to the sea by something more terrifying than they could have ever imagined. And as they go, they are taking anyone and everyone who has not been changed with them.With nowhere to escape too, Joe and his friend Cassidy find themselves in a fight for their lives against... the COPPER FANGS.

On a small island of the Louisiana coast, prospects for a better life grow fewer with each passing year. So, when a mysterious blood red pearl is discovered, John Hightower and his friends begin diving in search of more. Soon however, relationships are put to the test and lifelong friendships begin to unravel amid a flurry of betrayals, lies, and death.While the drama plays out among the friends, something stirs in the sea; something that has lain dormant for centuries. A creature that has grown to an unimaginable size, with an appetite to match. An appetite… for human blood.Should John and his friends somehow survive their mutual greed and paranoia, there is no guarantee that they will survive the monstrous creature that awaits them in the deep.

Lake Enforcement Officer, Bruce Wright has a problem, and it isn't just a busy vacation season full of festivals, summer camps, fishing tournaments, boaters and beachgoers. If only that were all he had to worry about… Unfortunately, there is something lurking in the depths of picturesque Lake Riley; something that should not exist, something insanely large, voracious, and bloodthirsty, and it is on a killing spree that will not end unless Bruce can find a way to stop it.

Known as the River Man, he wanders the banks of the Mississippi fin search of the monster that took everything he had. When his quest brings him a small river town on an island in the river, he knows that this is where his quest will end, one way or the other, for this forlorn place is the lair of the monster called the Mississippi Catfish Queen.