An Underground Research Station. A Deadly Discovery. And Someone Who'll Kill to Claim It.

She came to cook for fifty scientists. She didn't sign up to fight for their lives.

When Poppy takes a job as chef at a classified underground research station in the Australian outback, she expects isolation, strange colleagues, and a once in a lifetime career challenge. She doesn't expect armed intruders. She doesn't expect the head of security to make her pulse race. And she definitely doesn't expect to find herself hiding in a pantry, clutching two cans of corn, while mercenaries sweep her kitchen.

But the break-in is only the beginning.

Deep beneath the station, the scientists have woken something that was never meant to be disturbed — an organism older than recorded history, with properties no one can explain and consequences no one can predict. And someone on the surface wants it badly enough to kill for it.

Trapped hundreds of metres underground, cut off from the world, Poppy realises that the greatest danger isn't the men with guns.

It's what they're really there to find.

The Research Station is a pulse pounding Australian thriller perfect for fans of Michael Crichton and Tess Gerritsen - where buried science meets explosive suspense, and the woman least expected to be a hero turns out to be the most dangerous person in the room.