Jack Miller, a 25-year-old Las Vegas casino security guard, barely gets by on $3,000 a month. When his phone falls into a secluded cove on the western shore of Nevada’s Lake Mead, a place locals call the “Griffin’s Forbidden Ground,” he ignores an old fisherman named Bob and dives in after it. At the bottom, he accidentally touches an ancient iron chain used by Mormon settlers in 1882 to seal away an aquatic griffin. A mysterious force sends him hurtling back to the surface. When Jack comes to, a pale gold griffin emblem has appeared on his palm, and he discovers he can control water and see inside living bodies. He begins using his powers to catch fish for cash, then moves on to rare blue crabs and giant freshwater clams. As his fortune grows, he becomes a major shareholder in Caesars Palace and buys a Ford Raptor, leaving his days of scraping by behind him. But Quinn, still seething after Jack taught him a lesson, pays a hitman $80,000 to kill him. Meanwhile, Jack returns to
