When federal investigator Angeni Bineshiinh is assigned to audit a series of closed witness protection cases, she expects bureaucratic failure.
She doesn't expect the witnesses to be marked completed.
The trail leads to the M.I.S.H.I.P.E.S.H.U. Initiative-an underwater sanctuary beneath the Great Lakes where no one returns. Inside, residents are encouraged to forget who they were... and no one questions those sent deeper into the facility.
Because everyone wants to go. Beyond the glass, something vast moves in the dark-Mishipeshu. And it's being fed.
As Angeni uncovers the truth, she realizes the program isn't protecting witnesses-it's using them, trading human lives for control over a world spiraling into chaos. But the deeper she goes, the harder it becomes to remember who she was... or why she wanted to leave.
Because the system doesn't trap you. It remakes you. Now marked for the same fate, Angeni must decide: expose the truth-or become part of what is already watching.
THE EYE OF THE DEEP is a literary psychological horror novel about control, sacrifice, and the cost of disturbing a balance that was never meant to be managed.
For readers of The City We Became, Annihilation, and Mexican Gothic.