Gray Sharks

Elaine Porter is ambitious, idealistic—and still waiting for her first big break. As a young investigative journalist struggling to be taken seriously in a competitive newsroom, she jumps at a tip involving the sudden and mysterious death of a former ExoSmart employee. What begins as a routine probe into workplace misconduct soon opens a door to something much darker. The deeper Elaine digs, the more inconsistencies she finds surrounding the whistleblower’s case. The tech giant ExoSmart, known for its innovation and influence, seems to be hiding more than just internal failures. With each new lead—an encrypted message, a hushed former colleague, a corrupted file—Elaine stumbles closer to a truth that powerful people will do anything to keep buried. As pressure mounts from both inside her own ranks and beyond, Elaine finds herself caught between her journalistic integrity and the very real dangers of chasing a story that stretches far beyond corporate misconduct. Surveillance, threats, and sabotage become part of her daily reality as she begins to grasp the scale of the conspiracy—and how expendable she is to those involved. GRAY SHARKS is a tense and timely thriller about truth in the age of power, the cost of integrity, and the courage it takes to speak up when the world expects you to stay silent. For Elaine, the path to her first real headline may also be a descent into a place where even the truth has predators—and diving too deep might mean not resurfacing at all.