Meg: Primal Waters (known digitally as Meg³: Primal Waters) is a 2004 science fiction horror novel by American author Steve Alten. It is the sequel to The Trench: Meg 2 and the third book in the MEG series. The novel continues the adventure of Jonas Taylor, now a middle-aged father of two, eighteen years after the previous novel, as he is hired as a consultant for the reality television series Daredevils, which comes to be plagued by megalodons (megs).[1] The novel’s audiobook was narrated by Keith Szarabajka.[2]

Eighteen years after the events of the previous novel, in 2019, Jonas Taylor is now living in Tampa, Florida with his wife Terry and two children.

Overwhelmed with past due bills and his rebellious teenage daughter Danielle and suffering from a mid-life crisis, Jonas accepts a job as a consultant from Hollywood television producers on the top-rated reality television series Daredevils, providing his “expert commentary” on a contest being held in the South Pacific Ocean. As Jonas proceeds to the series’ set aboard a Spanish galleon with Danielle, as his wife Terry investigates beached whales off of Vancouver Island, both learned they have entered the latest feeding zones of megalodons (megs),

as Angel has been lured to surface waters from the trench and is being pursued by nefarious individuals. Terry attempts to capture the meg responsible for the whale beachings, while her and Jonas’ son David attempts to capture the real Angel along with Mac. Meanwhile, on the set of Daredevils, Jonas’ archenemy Michael Maren plans to get revenge on Jonas using his pet meg “Scarface”, Angel’s son, whose brother is the meg Terry is pursuing (both born at the conclusion of the previous book). Ultimately, Jonas tricks Michael into feeding himself to Scarface, while Megalodon returns to the trench with his dead master’s remains, where-in a much larger being is revealed to reside, while the pregnant Angel is returned to the Institute.