When an exploratory drilling crew in rural Ohio breaks through at 8,400 feet, they don't find gas. They find something that breathes.
Three miles away, nine-year-old Eli Harmon wakes with a fear he cannot name. Soon he begins hearing the ground speak, sleep-talking in an impossible language, and slipping further away from his mother with every passing day. Sandra Harmon knows something is wrong with her son. What she doesn't know is that the drilling site has opened a path to an ancient presence buried beneath the earth for sixty-six million years.
As Eli's condition worsens, Sandra turns to Father Thomas Breslin, a parish priest with a hidden past as a trained exorcist. What begins as a possession case quickly becomes something far worse. The entity inside Eli is older than religion, older than civilization, and hungry for a way back into the world. Breslin, Father Raymond Okafor, and a small team of priests are forced into a brutal spiritual battle against a fallen intelligence that has waited in the deep dark since before human history.
Deep Below is a supernatural horror novel about faith, motherhood, possession, and the terror of what has been waiting under our feet since the beginning of time.
