Benjamin Stetser

Witness the beginning of a kaiju unmatched by any other-three thousand years ago in the ancient waters off what would one day be Sydney, Australia, a brutal and untamed world thrived where dinosaurs ruled the land and the ocean belonged to something far greater-an enormous, battle-scarred Megalodon named Kaelira, a predator so powerful that even the largest creatures fled at her presence; she hunted with unstoppable force, tearing through whales and dominating every corner of her domain, from the open sea to the violent, volcanic depths that bent to her will, existing above the natural balance of life itself-until the world itself turned against her, as the unstable volcanic range she called home awakened in a cataclysmic eruption, collapsing her hidden sanctuary, sealing her escape, and burying her beneath fire, ash, and crushing pressure-entombing the once undisputed ruler of the ocean in silence where she would remain preserved for millennia.