After a hurricane unsettles North Carolina's Outer Banks, Pamlico Sound lies deceptively calm.

A small fishing charter runs aground on a shoal as the tide begins to rise, stranding its passengers in open water with the boat out of reach and daylight slipping away. They came aboard for different reasons - a trip already paid for, a weekend already promised, a chance to pretend certain things were not breaking.

But the sea has a way of pulling truth to the surface.

For Ava and Danny North, separated and speaking only when they must, the day was supposed to belong to their twelve-year-old son, Jack. Instead, as the water climbs and a massive great white shark moves beneath it, their fractured family is forced into a fight for survival.

Judy is no monster. She is the sea in motion - instinct, hunger, pressure, and tide.

Atmospheric, tense, and emotionally grounded, JUDY is a literary survival thriller about family, fear, grief, and the terrifying indifference of nature.