The Waterfall Tour

By Philip Stengel

Daniel and Emily Hart booked the tour because it had five stars.

A private morning pickup near Jaco Beach. Monkeys in the trees. A hidden waterfall. A friendly local guide named Mateo with practiced English, a white van, and the kind of smile that makes danger feel impolite to question.

At first, everything looks like the vacation video they came to Costa Rica to make. Jungle shade. wet leaves. monkeys watching from the branches. Emily laughing at Daniel for filming too much. Then the trail changes. Their phones lose signal. The guide keeps pushing them farther from the marked routes. A radio message cuts through the waterfall roar.

They're here.

The tour was never a tour.

It was a delivery system.

Daniel and Emily are pulled into a hidden network built from fake reviews, off-map roads, corrupt contacts, private medical rooms, hidden gates, and travelers who were never meant to be found whole. As they fight through rainforest, back rooms, service roads, hospital corridors, and evidence trails that reach across borders, the camera becomes more than a record. It becomes proof that the smiling version of paradise was built to hide a business of disappearance.

The Waterfall Tour is a true-crime-style horror thriller about recovered footage, organ trafficking, fake travel reviews, missing tourists, and the terrifying cost of trusting the wrong guide in a place where beauty makes people lower their guard.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H2224ZPZ
• ISBN13: 9798197162403
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 425 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"