Celebrated journalist Melissa Tate?Mel to friends and enemies alike--didn't much like it when her boss called her off the scoop of a lifetime off the coast of Alaska. Actually, she pitched a fit and refused to go. But when her boss Harvey Whipple explained that she was going to be the first to interview the famously reclusive geneticist, Doctor Elias Quenby, on his floating laboratory set into the Sargasso Sea, she decided this might not be too bad at all. Plus, she was going to get to stay on a prototype sea-surface habitat.
Scuba diving. Fresh seafood. Lounging in the sun. Not bad, especially after freezing her nose off in the Beaufort Sea.
That was before she found out about the boats disappearing. And the people dying.
And the mad scientists. And the mysterious creatures...
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K.G. McAbee has had several books and nearly a hundred short stories published, some of them quite readable. She takes her geekdom seriously, never misses a sci-fi con, loves dogs and iced tea, and believes the words 'Stan Lee' are interchangeable with 'The Almighty.' She writes steampunk, fantasy, science fiction, horror, pulp, westerns and, most recently, comics. She's a member of Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers and is an Artist in Residence with the South Carolina Arts Commission. Her steampunk/zombie novella, BLACKTHORNE AND ROSE: AGENTS OF D.I.R.E. received an honorable mention in the 3rd quarter Writers of the Future contest. She won the prestigious Black Orchid Novella Award, sponsored by The Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, for 'Dyed to Death', a story set in a 1920s mill village. Please visit her website: www.kgmcabeebooks.com or email her at kgmcabee@gmail.com