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The probleirl named Winona Hart had disappeared She had been at a party, but none of her underage drunken friends--half of them potheads to boot--seeone, or hoh the filter of light to the cable fro as their dive boat In histo be closer to the shore Unless, of course, she’d been kidnapped by a boater and dumped somewhere beyond the bay and out in the Atlantic If that was the case, their chances of finding her were alht in a current or an undertow, a body ht wash up on land And if they caularly followed a certain route, even a weighted body ht so blindly Still, he hadn’t wanted to miss the opportunity to be in on the search, not when he had pro hurim attempt was not to find Jennie but a local teen who had now been ht not be connected to Jennie’s No one knew if Jennie Lawson had actually ustine, her intended destination They only knew that she had landed in Jacksonville, gotten off the plane and picked up a rental car Neither she nor the car had been seen since

He didn’t haveJennie alive Her one, because her daughter had coht before her disappearance was reported and said goodbye Caleb wasn’t sure what to believe, because Mr Lawson seemed to think that Mrs Lawson had lost her hter had disappeared, and he had, in fact, made a motion behind his wife’s back to indicate as ht visits, however, so he had simply s he could to find out the truth, even if he couldn’t return her daughter to her That had co people needed Perhaps it was too painful to live with eternal hope

So Caleb was also looking for Jennie, or any sign of her, even if he was officially on the trail of another young wo out hope But this dive was i hiet to know the local authorities and the local expert on the surrounding waters

As he moved toward the marshy shore, he couldn’t see more than a few feet in front of hiht illu area as he searched, and he was ned section of the bay He had seen the grid, and heno possibility that anything had been overlooked As an out-of-stater, he was the oddto make the other men--and the one woman--on the local forensic dive team resent his presence, he would end up ostracized, and that would be a real proble with the police lieutenant in charge of the case, Tim Jamison, and Will Perkins, the dive master, was crucial Caleb was there ency, Harrison Investigations The cases they took generally had an unusual twist, so inexplicable, even supernatural, that required their very specific professional services, but in this instance it was Adam Harrison’s personal friendship with Jennie Lawson’s father that had brought Caleb here

He noted a glitter of light, just this side of the drop-off He focused his dive light, and headed toward the glint, knowing full well that itbasket

But as he neared the object in the water, he knew that this was no shopping cart

It was far too large, for one thing The full size of it became clear as he drew closer It was an automobile

All too often, people intentionally discarded cars in the water So more

Sometimes they held human remains

And as he approached the Chevy mired in the mucky, seaweed-laden sand, he saw that this car was not eht him to the driver-side

A face stared out at hiiant O, as if in a desperate quest for breath

The eyes…

Did not exist Already, the creatures of the deep had started to feed