Wyatt Reynolds checks all the boxes of a future success story: valedictorian, full-ride scholar, future PhD candidate. Then, he ends up in prison for murder.

Now Wyatt's other life begins, his life at Donnington Correctional Institution, but before he can even make a dent in his sentence, his block guard takes a single breath...and drops dead. Soon everyone else in the prison starts dropping dead too. Wyatt realizes if he wants to live, he needs to escape.

And he does, by the skin of his teeth with the help of his friend Ty and an unhinged murderer named Thomas. The trio steals a boat and flees to the open ocean, knowing they must stay on the water no matter what—because something catastrophic has happened back on land, and returning is a death sentence.

The problem is staying on the water isn’t safe either, not with a man like Thomas on the loose, a man who will avoid going back to a cell at all costs…

From the coast of North Carolina to the Caribbean to beyond the Atlantic, Sunken is an apocalyptic epic about the consequences of truths and lies, about the blurred lines between heroism and villainy, and about a final question hidden at the center of it all: who did Wyatt kill, and why?