The White Settlement

The town existed for ninety-one minutes. Then every trace of it disappeared. During a late-night satellite pass over the frozen Alaskan interior, Dr. Rowan McKeene discovers something impossible: thirty-two houses, hundreds of people, and a white church standing in a basin official maps insist is empty. Ninety-one minutes later, the settlement is gone. Then someone erases the original image. When Rowan's mother—an aging former federal cartographer losing her memory—begins talking about a place called White, Rowan is drawn into a secret buried for decades: vanished children, altered survivors, and a settlement built to endure a catastrophe that never came. Now White is opening again. Deep in the Arctic winter, its inhabitants have survived by becoming something the outside world was never meant to see. And the people who erased them from history are coming back to finish what they started. The White Settlement is an atmospheric science-fiction horror novella of government secrets, impossible biology, buried memory, and the terrifying things that survive when history decides they never existed. Book Three of the Cold Frequencies series.