Diving with the Shark Bait - DARK PAYHIP EXCLUSIVE

Diving With the Shark Bait - Dark Exclusive

Alex joins his friends for a forbidden dive on a reef the locals refuse to go near.

The water is perfect. The sun is bright.

And the old man’s warning, “the reef doesn’t feed on us… it uses us”, seems like nothing more than superstition.

Until Alex descends a little too far.

Something beneath the coral moves.

A tangle of living vines wraps around his ankle, then his wrists, then his chest, dragging him into a hidden fold of the reef where the water pulses warm and alive. In the dim light, Alex realises the reef is not a collection of plants at all, but a single organism with purpose, hunger, and a terrifying intelligence.

It doesn’t want to drown him.

It wants to keep him.

As the creature studies him, breathes for him, and forces him into a rhythm not his own, Alex becomes the centre of a ritual older than the island itself. His friends are taken next, each of them suspended and used in ways none of them could have imagined.

But it’s Alex the reef wants most, and when it releases him at last, he discovers he hasn’t escaped at all.

Something has been left inside him.

Growing.

Waiting.

A dark MM sci-fi horror romance of underwater captivity, sentient reefs, biological transformation, and the terrifying intimacy of being chosen as the vessel for something that should not exist.

Expect: MM monster romance, underwater horror, biological transformation, sentient reef, alien organism, forced proximity, deep sea creature, psychological horror romance, dark sci fi fantasy, reef consciousness, captured diver, body-horror themes, dangerous beauty, Drowned Desires, dark exclusive