Bury Me Deep [Mass Market Paperback]

Jean is expecting to have a great time there, but she doesn't even leave the airplane before her vacation is changed for the worse. The young man (Mike Clyde) sitting next to her suddenly has a seizure and dies. Although she only got to know him briefly, Jean is very affected by his death.

She tries to forget about the incident once she arrives on the island. Her two friends try to help by introducing her to two scuba diving instructors, Johnny and Dave. The five of them make plans to go scuba diving, which is a great distraction for Jean. She's quick to pick up on the sport, and it becomes a necessary skill for her throughout the book. She also falls for Johnny, even though she had promised Mandy she wouldn't interfere since Mandy had set her eyes on him first.

Even though she is able to suppress the horror on the plane for awhile, Jean begins having nightmares, and one in particular remains predominant. She's swimming in the ocean with Mike. He leads her to a cave, exactly like the one he had described to her on the plane, and shows her a human skull with a bullet hole in it. Jean knows Mike is trying to tell her something, but she doesn't know what.

Then, on another scuba diving trip with her friends, Jean insists they swim out to a vacant cove. For reasons unknown, she's drawn to this spot. It becomes even more eerie when Jean finds a cave and skull just like the one Mike had shown her in her dream.

This supernatural mystery links two separate deaths: the death of Mike and a fellow scuba diver of Dave and Johnny's, Ringo. At first, neither seem related at all. After all, Mike had died on the plane and Dave and Johnny's friend had died a year ago. However, Jean reveals that Mike had, in fact, died a month ago--not days ago--at the exact spot where she found the cave and skull. His ghost is what keeps hanging around, haunting her dreams and almost driving her crazy. But it's the only way for him to show her the clues that will uncover and solve his death, as well as Ringo's.

I had a hard time getting into this book. Mike's death at the beginning seemed pointless, and I wasn't really sure how the book was going to develop. Then, halfway through it, the book began to pick up the pace and I was able to put the pieces of the plot together. I wasn't too surprised, though, when I found out who the bad guy was. In fact, you'll probably be able to guess him/her close to the end; it's really obvious.

The book as a whole wasn't too terribly bad, but I certainly wouldn't recommend this one. Unless you love Christopher Pike books, I'd take the advice of the title and dig a bottomless pit and toss this one in.