A storm at sea. Forty-two souls aboard. One secret heavy enough to sink them all. When The Ocean Blue leaves Pier 39 on a foggy San Francisco morning, Captain Buddy Skella feels the unease before he can name it. The vessel is sound, the route is familiar, and the manifest lists forty-two passengers and crew. But a suspicious crate has been loaded into the hold, several passengers seem far too interested in it, and the Pacific has begun to turn against them. As the ferry pushes into open water, fog becomes storm, suspicion becomes accusation, and the passengers aboard The Ocean Blue are forced into a terrifying truth: danger is not only outside in the waves. It is locked inside the vessel with them. When murder strikes and the hidden cargo is revealed, Captain Skella must hold the ship together while fear, hunger, greed, and betrayal threaten to tear everyone apart. 42 & The Ocean Blue is a fast-moving maritime suspense novel of secrets, survival, and human nature under pressure. Set against the dark power of the Pacific, the story follows a captain fighting not only the sea, but the violence and desperation rising among the people he has sworn to protect.