They have ten days to tear an innocent woman from the gallows. After that, there's only a coffin — and a national humiliation.Mashhad, December 26. Élise Clermont, a French literature teacher, walks into a peaceful protest. Three days later she is buried in a prison in southern Iran, sentenced to death for espionage — a lie the regime intends to turn into a global spectacle.In Paris, the President makes a call France has never dared to...

There is a pocket of the Amazon that the maps still show as unbroken green. No expedition has ever lasted inside it. The peoples who live at its edge call it “the place where voices don't come back.”When biologist Rachel Hayes enters it with four companions, she expects to find undiscovered life. She finds something else. Up there, a hundred and fifty feet above the ground, in the second forest floor the canopy makes, something is watching. Something that lets invisible threads han...

In Halbrook, a forgotten small town in Kentucky, a rushed drilling bore punches through the floor of a flooded chamber sealed since 1961 beneath an old coal mine. What comes up has no eyes, no name, and feeds on electricity.By night, the thing follows the cables, hunts the beating hearts, and turns every lit bulb into deadly bait. In five days, a handful of ordinary people — an electrician, a geologist no one ever listened to, a deputy stripped of her badge, an old miner haunted by...

It started with Los Angeles. Then San Francisco. Then Sacramento. They come up out of the ground. They have no eyes. They give off no heat—no thermal camera, no night-vision scope will ever show them. And they hunt by the shaking of the earth: a running man, a tank’s engine, a heart beating too hard. The harder America fights back, the more it feeds them. Dr. Maren Cole, a zoologist, warned that we were drilling too deep. No one listened. Now, bent over the first dead creature anyone has r...

Susan Sullivan left everything behind — a husband, a city, a life that was slowly erasing her — to start over in Iron Creek, a village lost high in the Colorado Rockies. Between a classroom full of children and a rancher with too big a heart, she is finally learning to breathe again.But hundreds of miles away, a man has never accepted that she walked out. Travis is looking for her. And there is nothing — nothing — he won’t do to bring her back.When the fiercest storm of the...

Nour Sabran once had the finest nose in Grasse — and she used it to copy other people's perfumes instead of making her own. Disgraced and exiled, she lands in New Orleans with a job most people couldn't do: erasing the smell of the dead from the houses they leave behind, so their families can finally let go.Then a doctor finds a tumor growing out of the very tissue that gives her the gift. To live, she will have to lose her sense of smell completely, and forever. She has four month...

The most-heard voice on the planet belongs to a woman no one has ever seen.Hana Seo is "Mira": the voice inside eight hundred million devices, and the voice of a virtual idol who sells out arenas. Her contract forbids her from ever having a public face. She is everywhere — and no one, nowhere.Marcus Vlahos can't recognize a single face. He never could. In his Los Angeles shop, he brings dead machines back to life, and the voices they keep — the voices of the departed, that ...

Under the snow, something got cold enough to wake up.Haltia, Michigan. Eleven hundred people, an iron mine flooded for a century, and a winter that falls to thirty below. When the company pumps the old shafts dry to reach the nickel that fills electric batteries, eight hundred thousand bats flee the mountain in a single night — and freeze in midair over the rooftops.That is only the beginning.Far below, beneath the one level no one has reopened sinc...

Six weeks after Halbrook, Priya Nair finds eleven empty eggshells at the edge of a forgotten pond. The thing they thought dead under the mountain seeded through the water before it died — and its daughter, born in silence, is coming down the river toward Ashford, fifty thousand people, and its dam: the greatest sun of current that never sets.But this creature has learned. It mistrusts traps, hides its hearts under water no light can pierce, and no longer needs the night. Worse: a p...

Four months after the Gallman dam, winter has erased nothing. The seeds the creature loosed into the Ohio before it died have drifted the length of the basin — and this generation has learned to seal itself against the light. No longer one heart in one chamber: a colony braided through the power grid itself, waking in a dozen dams at once along a frozen river.Priya Nair and her handful of watchers know it, but you can't dewater a continent or send the sun down a thousand shafts. Th...

At nine, Alma Reyes survived the exorcism. The demon never left.Thirty‑five years later, Alma is a locksmith in the Bronx, living by one rule: never go back to the Brooklyn house where it happened. Where her possessed child’s hands killed her little brother.Then a boy she has never met slips a drawing under her door — Alma as a child, carried off by a faceless man. On the back, in handwriting she knows from her nightmares: “He’s awake. Come fin...

Autumn 1954. The Mahalangur massif, deep in the Himalaya. An international expedition sets out to climb a peak no rope team has ever conquered—a pillar of black rock and ice the Western climbers have nicknamed the Black Cathedral, and that the Sherpas will not say aloud.Étienne Roux has come back to finish what his brother started and never lived to end. Two years ago, Paul died on this face. Étienne wants to understand why. He will.At base camp, the porters won't raise the...