At a sun-washed dock in Long Beach, California, the freighter Morris takes on a new contingent of passengers. Among the vacationers are a disgruntled wealthy couple, a father and his cancer-stricken child, a woman searching for her long-lost husband, and a female cop with bitter memories of the boy who drowned before her eyes. But unbeknown to the passengers, the Morris is heading into a supernatural storm of swirling fog and howling winds, and they are destined to be shipwrecked on a sea of their own terrors. In waves of love and blood they will drown, one at a time, in bubbling agony. And for company they will have those who have drowned before them - those sunken dead who also received a message in a bottle from a legendary sailor of the seas of fate...SALES POINTS: Nancy Holder is co-author of MAKING LOVE, published by Raven earlier this year; DEAD IN THE WATER is the authors first solo horror novel, and is guaranteed to attract as much attention as it has in the US. THE AUTHOR Nancy Holder is the author of a number of romance novels and a mainstream thriller. She is a sinner of the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers of America.