A sleek, unnerving sci-fi thriller that runs on dread and precision.
Three strangers find themselves pulled into a catastrophe already in motion in Ewing’s compelling latest. Adam Barnett wakes after a lightning strike with half his memory burned away and a dog that seems to know him better than he knows himself. In Scottsdale, Major Blain Jacobson steps into Biodosius Labs and finds silence, torn bodies, and a wiped security system. On her Northern Arizona ranch, Victoria Stewart jolts awake to a psychic tremor she hasn’t felt in years. As an engineered menace threads their lives together and moves toward Phoenix, can any of them decode a threat that learned them first?
Ewing mixes noir tension, speculative fear, and survival-thriller urgency into a narrative where the quiet moments bruise the most. Adam’s storyline gives the novel its rawest pulse—survival stripped to instinct. Jacobson’s arc widens the threat, and Victoria’s psychic bleed-through adds to the book’s eeriest emotional current. The horror stays low to the ground—footprints, distorted feeds, the sense of a mind studying you in real time. When the storylines collide, the novel becomes a tense study of engineered brutality and human fragility. Lovers of multi-character, conspiracy-driven suspense will be gratified.
Pub date April 2, 2026
Grand Canyon Press, 2026
ISBN 1963361075, 9781963361070
Price $6.99 (USD) Kindle edition
