Scorpion Deep [Drews, Cg]

Author: Cg Drews

CG Drews, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn, weaves a disturbing and intoxicating siren-call in Scorpion Deep, about a lonely boy who accidentally awakens an obsessive eldritch sea god.

The only thing Jonathan Covey wants from the gloomy, moldering isle of Kelcarrow is to leave it. Summer is ending, and his friends are looking forward to college on the mainland, unaware that Jonathan was not accepted to join them. He'll be left behind with nothing but the ocean's haunts and a rising dread of being abandoned.

In an act of wild desperation, Jonathan pays a tithe to Scorpion Deep, an eldritch sea god who many of the locals have dismissed as myth. He wants to forget the past, he wants to follow his friends, and most of all he wants to finally escape.

To his shock and horror, the ritual works--Scorpion Deep awakens. And despite his terror, Jonathan can't help but feel drawn toward the ageless entity that seems just as mutually obsessed with him. As scales start growing down his spine and Scorpion Deep's adoration of him turns bloody, Jonathan realizes the only way to end the nightmare is to destroy the monster one way or another.

But once a god has awoken, the only way to be free is to pay a price of blood.

Also by CG Drews
Don't Let the Forest In
Hazelthorn

Publisher: Macmillan Publishers (MPS)
Published: 10/27/2026
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.06oz
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250376312

Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 07/01/2026 pg. 99
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2026
Publishers Weekly 08/17/2026

About the Author
CG Drews is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Hazelthorn, Don't Let the Forest In, Scorpion Deep, You Did Nothing Wrong, A Thousand Perfect Notes, and The Boy Who Steals Houses. CG's work has been translated into over a dozen languages and won the 2020 CBCA Honour Award. Currently living in Australia, CG never sleeps, and is forever buried under a pile of unread books.