Apex Containment

Dr. Aria Holt designed every creature prowling the deep-sea research station's bioengineering decks—raised them from embryos, charted their neural growth, called them breakthroughs. Now the pressure hull is fracturing, her specimens are hunting in packs through pitch-black service tunnels, and a corporate strike team closing in overhead has no interest in rescue. Trapped between the things she made and the people who funded them, Aria has one failing reactor cycle to choose what survives.