Some Secrets Should Stay Buried.

Some secrets should stay buried. When a remote Pacific island resurfaces in historical records, what begins as quiet curiosity becomes something far more unsettling. Beneath dense jungle and abandoned structures lies a history that was never meant to be uncovered.

A literary thriller about grief, escape, and the things that survive long after the people who made them are gone — a quiet book that becomes something else.

In 1942, the German Navy discovered the perfect hiding place. They should have left it empty. Beneath tons of volcanic rock, hidden in the lagoon of an uncharted Pacific island, a Nazi research team set out to engineer the perfect soldier from the island's primate population.

But evolution works both ways. As the experiments progress, the subjects grow stronger, faster, more coordinated — and more intelligent. When the generators fail and the lights go out, only one species will emerge from the darkness.