GHOSTS OF THE TITANIC An Adventure Novel K. T. TOMB Rain Press (2023)

K.T. Tomb takes an infamous page from history and recreates it as a sweeping adventure thriller and undersea treasure hunt. First, she takes readers back to 1912 and the maiden voyage. Stephan Ivanovich, a peasant farmer, and Darya Nikita, an aristocrat with a dowry of diamonds are forbidden lovers. Together, they board the Titanic so they can elope and enjoy a new life together in America. The plot fast-forwards to a present-day quest and introduces illegal salvage entrepreneurs posing as documentary filmmakers. Captain Jonathan Martin and his hand-picked crew head to the deep-sea waters off Newfoundland, Canada, to try to recover the diamonds for Darya’s descendants, who hired them. Nick and Franco, the divers, conflict with Lisa, the ship’s medic, who’s in charge of training them to use their new technology. They all have their doubts about the presence of James Harper, a wanted criminal, on this ship. Back in the past, Darya is trying to escape her aristocratic family and an arranged marriage. In the present, using experimental equipment, when divers Nick and Franco see ghosts on the wreck, an unexpected murder mystery unfurls startling secrets of the voyage before the Titanic hit the iceberg. Once awakened, the ghosts aren’t content to stay at the bottom of the ocean. A small team of adventurers risks their very lives―and possible arrest―for a sack of diamonds. Will they succeed in their treasure hunt, or die trying?