The Deep

A Wilderness, Survival Thriller

Geysers. Scalding steam. A canyon that breathes fire.

Devil's Bowl is a chimney. Fire enters the box canyon and the geometry does the rest — swirling winds, unpredictable drafts, flames that reverse direction without warning. Every firefighter in Echo Creek knows you don't go into the Bowl when it's burning.

Five teenagers are in the Bowl. Their radio cuts out mid-sentence.

The fire is bad. The terrain is worse. But the river is something Cal Walker has never seen. Underground fire has heated the water table to boiling. Geysers erupt from the riverbed. Steam vents hiss between algae-slicked boulders. The planned escape route is now the most lethal obstacle on the mountain.

Cal goes in anyway.

The Deep is the third book in the Black Mountain Series — where the mountain's deadliest threat comes from below.