In 1963, thirteen-year-old Bud Castillo helped his family thwart a conspiracy to unleash ancient horrors from beneath Devil’s Reef and met Aubrey Marsh, the greatest Scout he’d ever known. Bud has never quite stopped mourning Aubrey’s fate, and he’s spent the years since trying to put Innsmouth behind him.
Now eighteen and caught up in the chaos of Vietnam five years later, Bud finds that serving on a Swift Boat through a war nobody wants to win feels uncomfortably familiar: a battle of deranged true believers trying to get their hands on something ancient and hungry. This time, though, the conspiracy runs farther than the jungle rivers, and Bud will need more than a Scout’s sense of duty to survive it.
Especially when a ghost from Innsmouth surfaces to remind him that loyalty is the most dangerous virtue you can carry into a war.
