Are you a fan of The Twilight Zone? If so, this is the series for you. All of Sterling and Stone’s Dark Crossings draw inspiration from Rod Serling’s particular brand of speculative fiction.
And now, there’s a whole set of Dark Crossings specifically related to the Invasion Universe!
My contribution to the Dark Crossings collection is The Scout, a prequel to my Astral Conspiracy series.
Blurb:
The aliens have landed. The humans are panicking. The scouts have been sent.
J’s mission is clear — find an alien outpost, observe, report back. Simple enough. It’s what he’s trained to do. But he’s always worked with his team, never as a party of one. Now he’s been sent out alone to blindly navigate a dense, dark forest until he finds his target. The dynamics are foreign to him, the stakes never higher. He’s completely isolated. Resources are scarce. Comms are down.
And he’s found the enemy.
It’s imperative he’s not caught, but clandestine spying doesn’t yield enough intel. J needs an ally, someone on the inside of the camp who can feed him information. And he finds one. But he gets more than he bargained for with Aria.
Their relationship grows complicated. Her people get defensive. His superior becomes suspicious. He doesn’t know who to trust. His loyalty’s divided, and pressure’s mounting from all sides.
J is shocked when everyone’s true allegiances are revealed. And the consequences of betrayal will be deadly.
