First published 2024
Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash arrives at Erebus Resort after a brutal double murder rocks the exclusive destination. The hundred-thousand-acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies houses an extraordinary attraction: woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths roam free, restored to life through genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his bride are killed in the remote backcountry, authorities suspect eco-terrorists struck against the controversial resurrection project. Cash teams with local sheriff James Colcord to hunt the killers through terrain populated by creatures that vanished millennia ago. More deaths follow in quick succession, forcing a complete evacuation of the valley. As Cash and Colcord pursue their investigation deeper into Erebus, they discover the murders stem from something far more sinister than environmental activism. An ancient presence inhabits the valley, one possessed of intelligence and malice. This entity seeks not the return of extinct species but the opposite: total extinction.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, thriller, action
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: ancient-evil, investigation
Setting: Colorado, Erebus Resort, Colorado Rockies
Period: present-day
370 pages · Hardcover · Forge Books
Content warnings: violence