In this powerhouse of suspense—as brilliantly imagined as
Jurassic Park and The Ruins—scientists have made a
startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an
island with an ecosystem unlike any they’ve seen
before . . . an ecosystem that could topple ours like a
house of cards.

The time is now. The place is the Trident, a long-range
research vessel hired by the reality TV show Sealife.
Aboard is a cast of ambitious young scientists. With a
director dying for drama, tiny Henders Island might be just
what the show needs. Until the first scientist sets foot on
Henders—and the ultimate test of survival begins . . .

For when they reach the island’s shores, scientists are
utterly unprepared for what they find—creatures unlike any
ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world
frozen in time, an island of mutants, or a lab where
science has gone mad: this is the Earth as it might have
looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion
years.

Soon the scientists will stumble on something more shocking
than anything humanity has ever encountered: because among
the terrors of Henders Island, one life form defies any
scientific theory—and must be saved at any cost.