Revenant Code

By Scott P. Hicks

Some codes don't just open doors.
Some wake the dead.

Detective Cass Morgan thought she understood evidence. Chain of custody. Clean procedure. Names, timestamps, cause and effect. But when Boston Harbor begins broadcasting a signal that can turn memory into weaponry, the old rules start breaking one by one.

A dead man's voice comes through the static. A missing brother's credential appears inside a sealed system. A child is trapped where physics shouldn't reach. And somewhere beneath the city, a machine called EIDOLON is learning how to make the past answer back.

Cass is pulled into a case that no report will ever explain. Her only real ally is Gabe Reyes, a damaged field scientist with the wrong kind of expertise and a talent for hearing patterns no one else can survive. Together, they follow the signal through flooded tunnels, abandoned stations, corrupted drives, and evidence that keeps changing after it's sealed.

But the deeper they go, the more the case stops looking like an accident.

Someone built this.

Someone buried it.

And someone is still protecting it.

As the city edges toward a cascading disaster, Cass has to decide how much of the rulebook she can break before she becomes part of the cover-up herself. Gabe knows the signal is evolving. Cass knows the evidence is disappearing. And both of them know the thing under Boston Harbor isn't finished.

Revenant Code is a tense supernatural tech thriller about memory, grief, corruption, and the terrible cost of bringing buried things back into the light.

Perfect for readers who want:

A high-stakes supernatural thriller grounded in procedure and evidenceA damaged but capable detective fighting a case that refuses to stay logicalCreeping technological horror with a paranormal edgeA sharp investigator and scientist partnership built on trust, pressure, and survivalA mystery that escalates from strange evidence to citywide threatA lean, cinematic pace with emotional stakes beneath the suspenseA haunting conspiracy involving hidden systems, missing proof, and voices that should be dead

Boston has secrets under the water.

Cass Morgan is about to learn that some of them have been waiting for her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FMFYV7VP
• ISBN13: 9798298038874
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"