The Teeth Below

Something ancient waits beneath the surface. When the water rises, it doesn't just flood the land-it remembers. Antiquities dealer Caleb Morrow knows the South Carolina Lowcountry is built over buried secrets. But when he purchases a cursed, copper-bound alligator tooth from a desperate scavenger, he brings something far worse than history into his Beaufort antique shop. The relic doesn't just sit in a safe; it actively hunts, using the city's brackish water lines to pry open a predatory pathway that was sealed centuries ago.
As a ruthless real estate developer begins blindly drilling into the block's foundations, the ancient horror below fully wakes. Forced into a brutal fight for survival, Caleb must team up with a cynical homicide detective and his own sharp-tongued assistant to stop the slaughter. To close the gate, they have to trace a blood-soaked road of corporate greed, broken seals, and Indigenous folklore before the entire coast becomes a feeding ground.
The Teeth Below is a gritty, standalone Southern Gothic supernatural thriller about obsession, guilt, and the predators we create when we look away.