Vessels

They thought they were transporting victims. They were delivering vessels. On a fortified island off the Gulf Coast, people disappear into a system built to erase them. Hidden behind the cover of environmental research, Victor Kincaid's private compound turns human beings into inventory: logged, processed, contained, and sold to clients who believe money can make anything disappear.But when a new shipment arrives from a remote desert commune, the machinery begins to fail.The cameras catch impossible shapes.The locked hatch beneath the compound starts counting.The walls remember voices they should not know.And among the captives, a woman named Maya keeps a list of the missing-because names are the last thing the system cannot take.The men who built the island think they understand what they are transporting.They do not.Something has arrived inside the cargo. Something patient. Something that knows the difference between a body, a vessel, and a door.Vessels is a brutal supernatural horror novel of captivity, survival, body horror, and the terrible things that happen when human monsters deliver themselves to something worse.For readers who enjoy:

• Extreme supernatural horror
• Occult and body horror
• Remote island containment stories
• Bleak survival horror
• Crime horror with cult and conspiracy elements