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Pub date April 2, 2026

Grand Canyon Press, 2026

ISBN 1963361075, 9781963361070

Price $6.99 (USD) Kindle edition

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In Ewing’s taut thriller a quiet pattern of anomalies spreads across the state, pointing to an enemy still operating in the dark. After a lightning strike wipes parts of his memory, bike builder Adam Barnett wakes on a remote mountainside with only a strange, loyal dog and a set of terrifying barefoot tracks for clues. In Scottsdale, Major Blain Jacobson arrives at Biodosius Labs to find a slaughter and a total information blackout. Meanwhile, on her Northern Arizona ranch, Victoria Stewart jolts awake to the psychic warning of another impending murder. As their paths converge, all three must piece together a deadly mystery before the unseen threat hunting them closes in.

Ewing balances action with dread, using quiet moments to build tension rather than simply filling space. The violence is brutal but never gratuitous, and the fear is grounded not in gore but in the idea that something is stalking the characters that outmatches them physically, mentally, and strategically. The villain—amoral, calculating, and connected to a network of ruthless accomplices—operates just outside the frame for much of the book, which heightens the sense of nightmare inevitability. The reader feels the same thing Adam, Jacobson, and Victoria feel: the danger is already in motion, and the protagonists are racing against a clock they can’t see. At its core, this is a story about ordinary people pulled into an extraordinary threat, fighting to understand it before it destroys everything around them. 

A tight, propulsive SF thriller that grabs you from the start and never lets go.

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