by Xnoval Originals · Urban · 100 chapters · complete series
When a violent storm exposes a roll of film from a long-lost shipwreck, history teacher and amateur archaeologist Thomas Blackwood recognizes a survival mark no one else can read—the secret sign of his supposedly dead father. Desperate to comfort his grieving mother’s memory and prove the truth, Thomas follows the clue into Britain’s sealed archives, forgotten wreck records, and a dangerous world of ambition, desire, and lies. Victoria Ellis, a sharp-eyed shipping archivist, helps him decode the hidden message, while rival editor George Graves guards secrets stolen from a dead scholar. With an elderly archivist leaking warnings and an Oxford professor verifying the evidence, Thomas must uncover what happened beneath the waves before the people protecting the past silence him forever.
