In the Coral Sea near Australia, Kira Beaumont witnessed a crime of piracy that changed her life forever. The eighteen-year-old heir to a giant shipping empire, she now has a dangerous obsession. As newspapers speculate about her disappearance, and tabloid newspapers invent bizarre gossip, Captain Kira fights a secret crusade a thousand feet under the Pacific. GOAL: To save refugees attacked on the high seas. ENEMY: Modern pirates, murderous and well-armed. SECRET WEAPON: A reborn combat submarine, bristling with twenty-first century technology to fight an ancient evil. THUNDERFISH: Some legends were meant to come true!