First published 2024
Doctor Jasmine Marks faces a return journey she never wanted to make. The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region stretches across the equator like a belt of death. This expanding rainforest kills any warm-blooded creature within minutes through crushing heat and humidity. Twenty years earlier, Marks survived a research expedition into this green hell under Doctor Elaine Fell's leadership. That mission ended in tragedy and abandonment. Now her corporate employers force her back inside. A aircraft has gone down in the Zone. Survivors wait somewhere in the killing heat. Marks must lead a rescue operation against impossible odds and a ticking clock. The environment wants to murder her team, but human threats may prove worse. Her bosses hide crucial information about the mission. Doctor Fell guards secrets from their shared past. Marks discovers that the Zone protects more than just its own deadly climate patterns. She must navigate corporate betrayal and personal history while racing to save lives in a place designed to end them.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, suspense, thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, rescue-mission, ticking-clock
Setting: Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, Zone
Period: Twenty Years Earlier
165 pages · Hardcover · Solaris
Content warnings: death, violence