The Unexpected #185

When Captain Ransom’s son, Bruce, reluctantly joins his father on a deep-sea voyage to prove he’s unfit for the sea, a storm and a mysterious threat beneath the waves test more than just his courage. With his unorthodox skills in hypnosis, Bruce unexpectedly becomes the key to quelling a mutiny — but the real danger may lie far deeper than the ship’s hull.

In the isolated aftermath of a failed attack, Timothy Shannon takes refuge in his late brother’s remote home, desperate to hide from those who seek him. With his nephew Katie clinging to life, the boy’s fragile hope clashes with an old local legend—the Cry of the Death Bird, a monstrous omen said to carry the dying to their end. As shadows deepen and the night grows thin, the boy’s fate hangs in the balance, and something ancient stirs in the dark.